Live news updates: Day 3 of IGas Ellesmere Port inquiry
This post has live news updates from Day 3 of the inquiry into IGas plans to test for gas flows at its well at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Breaking: High Court quashes Friends of the Earth challenge to Cuadrilla’s fracking permit
The campaign organisation, Friends of the Earth, has lost its legal challenge to one of key consents that allowed Cuadrilla to frack the UK’s first horizontal shale gas well.
Government fracking policy faces more legal challenges
The government is being challenged in the High Court this week over its planning policy on fracking.
December 2018 drilling headlines
Drilling for shale gas is underway at Tinker Lane in Nottinghamshire and site construction has begun at Biscathorpe in Lincolnshire. Rathlin Energy has given notice of work starting at its West Newton-A site. December could see Cuadrilla resume fracking at Preston New Road. There are also High Court hearings […]
MP asks government to investigate judge who jailed anti-fracking protesters
The justice secretary has been urged to investigate whether the judge who jailed three anti-fracking protesters last month followed an official code of conduct.
Four men wait to find out if they face jail for anti-fracking lorry protest
Four campaigners who spent a total of 99 hours on top of lorries delivering to Cuadrilla’s shale gas site could become the first people to be jailed for an anti-fracking protest.
Europa’s Leith Hill protest injunction extended for 14 hours
The High Court has extended an injunction against protests at Europa’s exploratory oil site near Leith Hill in Surrey for less than a day.
