The 16-year-old Swedish climate campaigner, Greta Thunberg, has described the UK’s support for shale gas as “irresponsible” and “beyond absurd”.
A panel of judges at an internationally-recognised tribunal has urged the United Nations to ban fracking.
Events in April 2019 and beyond about UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and campaigning
Owners of fracking sites may be liable for the clean-up if project backers go out of business, MPs said in a report published today.
This post has news updates from the eleventh day of the inquiry into IGas plans to test its well at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Anti–fracking campaigners from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire took their message to Westminster today.
Twenty-nine academics have called on governments and scientists to withdraw their support for fracking because of its climate change impacts.
About 120 people attended a meeting this evening about plans by UK Oil and Gas to drill for oil near the Surrey village of Dunsfold, near Guildford.
Anti-fracking groups took part in protests at six places across England today against the supply chain and funders of the shale gas industry. Windsor Activists assembled a four-metre model of a fracking rig outside the headquarters of Centrica, which has committed £100m to Cuadrilla’s shale gas operation in […]
The public inquiry into IGas plans to test its gas well at Ellesmere Port resumes in Chester next week.
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