The shale gas company, Ineos Upstream, has been criticised by the High Court for “improper conduct” and “inexcusable delay” over its injunction against anti-fracking protests.
The anti-fracking campaigner, Joe Corre, has asked the High Court to strike out the injunction granted to Ineos Upstream against protests at shale gas sites.
2021 was a year when key decision-makers, institutions and the public said no to the onshore oil and gas industry, often for the first time.
Nine protesters from Insulate Britain – the group campaigning for a national home insulation programme – have been jailed for breaching a court order banning them from protesting on the M25.
Opponents of fossil fuel extraction in Surrey have set up a climate camp on land proposed for gas exploration.
Courts will get new powers aimed at deterring disruptive protests, the home secretary announced this morning.
The High Court has granted a final injunction to UK Oil & Gas to prevent specific protests at its Horse Hill site by a small number of activists.
UK Oil & Gas was back at the High Court this morning in what could be the final hearing in its long-running attempt to restrict protests outside its sites.
An environmental campaigner who took part in a 12-hour protest on a rig platform at the Horse Hill oil site in Surrey has been cleared of aggravated trespass.
A temporary injunction against protests granted to an oil company could be made permanent within weeks – but in a radically-reduced form from the original.