The UK’s biggest shale gas licence-holder has accused the government of “shutting down shale by the backdoor” with rules on fracking-induced earth tremors.
People monitoring drilling at Rathlin Energy’s East Yorkshire well site are fighting a council threat of eviction to a road-side camp.
Campaigners in southern England have criticised what they say is a “gaping hole” in the regulations covering the use of acid on oil sites.
Cuadrilla had to stop fracking again this morning because of another earth tremor – the biggest recorded so far.
Opponents of fracking are to continue their legal challenges to the decision by the Communities’ Secretary to approve Cuadrilla’s shale gas plans near Blackpool.
Moderator, Paul Seaman, looks back over comments posted by DrillOrDrop readers over the past 12 months
A community group has given notice that it is planning a legal challenge to the extension of an oil and gas exploration licence in West Sussex.
A Labour member of the House of Lords has accused the government of weakening the law protecting National Parks through its regulations on fracking.
When is a frack not a frack? And why are some protected areas more protected than others? This post looks at the inconsistencies of some of the rules on fracking.
A parliamentary committee due to discuss government proposals for fracking in the UK’s most prized landscapes has just one member who might see drilling in his constituency.
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