“This is not the moment to abandon the campaign for net zero”, the former UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, told the opening day of the COP27 climate talks in Egypt.
Keep up to date with November 2022’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
The UK government is failing in its commitment that the public sector should “lead by example” on decarbonisation, MPs said today.
Less than 24 hours after a chaotic parliamentary vote on fracking, the prime minister has resigned.
The county which hosted the UK’s only high volume fracking sites voted unanimously this afternoon to keep planning decisions on the process with the local planning authority.
The government has confirmed it will not appeal against the High Court ruling that its Net Zero Strategy is unlawful.
Helen Savage responds to government support for fracking from the West Sussex village of Balcombe, scene of anti-fracking protests in summer 2013.
Councillors in East Yorkshire are to debate opposing fracking in the county.
Government advisors have told the new prime minister the UK can’t rely on shale gas to solve the cost-of-living crisis.
The Australian owner of the shale gas company, Cuadrilla, spent $1.107m in the UK in 2021 (about £655,000 at current rates), even though its licences were “on hold” because of the fracking moratorium.
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