Officials consider measures to enforce restoration of IGas Notts shale site
Conservative-controlled Nottinghamshire County Council is looking at options to ensure IGas restores the Springs Road shale gas site at Misson.
“UK fracking is good for the environment”, says climate minster
The new climate minister said today that developing UK shale gas would be good for the environment, the economy and jobs.
Questions over local benefit from Cuadrilla’s fracking fund
As ministers consider how to compensate people living near shale gas sites, a DrillOrDrop analysis of the UK’s only fracking community benefit fund raises questions about its value.
BBC admits “inaccurate” claim on fracking earthquake fears
The BBC has admitted it was inaccurate for a presenter on a flagship news programme to say that scientists had debunked fears about earthquakes near fracking sites.
“No fracking” tracking
English councils have begun voting against shale gas development in their areas, in response to the new government polity that fracking needs local support to go ahead.
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Helen Savage responds to government support for fracking from the West Sussex village of Balcombe, scene of anti-fracking protests in summer 2013.
“We don’t want fracking” – East Yorkshire tells government
Conservative-controlled East Yorkshire council has voted overwhelmingly against fracking locally in one of the first formal reactions to the government’s lifting of the moratorium in England.
Updated: No F-word in PM’s speech – but heckled by anti-fracking campaigners
Liz Truss did not mention fracking in her speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham. But leading campaigners from Greenpeace heckled over the party’s U-turn on the moratorium on fracking.
Jacob Rees-Mogg rules out local referendums on fracking and says shale gas companies could canvas door-door
The business secretary has rejected local referendums as a measure of public consent for fracking.
People “strongly in favour” of using old gas wells for geothermal scheme – consultation
More than 80% of people have supported plans for reusing former gas wells in North Yorkshire to provide renewable energy, according to survey findings published today.
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