The government misled parliament and the public over the climate change impacts of shale gas, according to new research. It suggests that ministers may even have breached their code of conduct by giving MPs inaccurate information.
Lancashire’s Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire said this evening the government had given the go-ahead for fracking in the county and so it should pay to police the protests.
The government published information today on what shale gas companies need to do to get final go-ahead to frack.
This round-up collects together studies, briefings and reports from the past six months on fracking and the onshore oil and gas industry. It includes work on methane emissions, public attitudes to fracking, economics of fossil fuels, impacts of noise on health and dealing with waste.
The latest findings from the government’s quarterly Wave tracker survey, published this morning, put support for fracking at 18%.
Photo by Steve Fareham [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Judges in Manchester are to hear all three legal challenges to rulings by the Secretary of State over fracking in Lancashire.
Local communities hold the least power in the planning process and central government and developers hold the most, according to a survey of councillors across the UK.
2016 saw the first approvals for high volume hydraulic fracturing in the UK since fracking caused small earthquakes in Lancashire in 2011.
This final diary for 2016 features two key events for the North Yorkshire Joint Minerals and Waste Local plan: a meeting and a deadline. Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included. Event listings for December and into 2017
DrillorDrop’s digest of November’s news about fracking, shale, onshore oil and gas developments and campaigns in the UK and around the world.
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