Updated: Cuadrilla gets more time for frack site decommissioning
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has been given just over four weeks to start plugging the shale gas wells at its mothballed Preston New Road site in Lancashire.
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has been given just over four weeks to start plugging the shale gas wells at its mothballed Preston New Road site in Lancashire.
Shale gas opponents were celebrating victory today in a 10-year David and Goliath battle in Nottinghamshire.
A cross-party committee of MPs has called for flaring on UK oil and gas fields to be banned in the next two years.
The UN secretary-general has called on all industrialised countries to tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies.