Residents warn of legal action if government relaxes fracking quake rules
The government’s rejection of Cuadrilla’s call for a relaxation of rules on earthquakes caused by fracking has been welcomed tonight by campaigners in Lancashire.
Minister updates fracking “myth buster” on earthquakes
The energy minister, Claire Perry, has revised her “myth buster” about shale gas and fracking, apparently to take account a series of earthquakes near Cuadrilla’s site in Lancashire.
Government urged to suspend Lancashire fracking over earthquakes
Councillors and campaigners in Lancashire are calling on the government to halt fracking at Cuadrilla’s shale gas near Blackpool following a series of earth tremors of increasing strength.
Council leader says Surrey earthquake link to oil operations cannot be “completely ruled out”
Mole Valley District Council has called for local oil and gas operations to stop if they are implicated in the recent cluster of earthquakes in Surrey.
Geologists challenge oil companies’ comments on Surrey earthquakes
Statements made by two oil companies about the recent cluster of earthquakes in Surrey have been challenged by geologists.
Surrey campaigners shocked by approval of disputed Brockham oil well
Opponents of an unauthorised oil well drilled at Brockham in Surrey were visibly shocked by a vote to grant retrospective planning permission today.
Fracking has got off to a wrong start, seismologist tells coalfield MPs
Regulators of fracking were accused today of a “dereliction of duty” in their oversight of shale gas proposals in mining areas.
