Landowners could face fracking clean-up costs, MPs warn
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.
News updates Day 11: IGas Ellesmere Port inquiry
This post has news updates from the eleventh day of the inquiry into IGas plans to test its well at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Picture post: Westminster anti-fracking rally
Anti–fracking campaigners from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire took their message to Westminster today.
Drop support for fracking to protect climate, urge academics
Twenty-nine academics have called on governments and scientists to withdraw their support for fracking because of its climate change impacts.
Surrey villagers urged to challenge oil company over Dunsfold drilling plans
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.
Updated picture post: nationwide protests at fracking investors and supply chain
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 […]
Inquiry resumes on IGas Ellesmere Port test plans
The public inquiry into IGas plans to test its gas well at Ellesmere Port resumes in Chester next week.
Live news updates: Day 2 of IGas Ellesmere Port inquiry
This post has live updates from the second day of the inquiry into IGas’s appeal against the refusal of planning permission for testing at its Ellesmere Port well site.
UK firsts for public inquiry into IGas test plans at Ellesmere Port opening today
The UK’s first public inquiry on the impact of an onshore gas site on climate change gets underway this morning.
IGas Ellesmere Port well test is “wrong place at the wrong time”, says campaign group
IGas plans to test a gas well in Ellesmere Port will undermine efforts to regenerate a seriously deprived area and put nearby homes and businesses at risk, campaigners will argue later this month.
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