UK onshore oil sites continue to emit methane, research reveals
The climate-damaging gas methane is still being released at English onshore oil sites, a year after researchers revealed the problem.
The climate-damaging gas methane is still being released at English onshore oil sites, a year after researchers revealed the problem.
The climate campaigner who was jailed yesterday for contempt of court over a pipeline protest is to appeal.
The Environment Agency has approved new rules for work at the West Newton-B oil and gas site in East Yorkshire.
Plans for what could be one of the UK’s first power stations equipped with carbon capture technology were announced today.
A steady fall in oil production has continued at UKOG’s Horse Hill site in Surrey, according to the latest monthly official data released today.
A six-day methane gas release at Cuadrilla’s fracking site near Blackpool had the same carbon footprint as 142 flights from London to New York, new research has concluded.
The government has failed to comply with a ruling to release a secret report on challenges to a UK shale gas industry.
Cuadrilla has been given permission to use a technique at its Lancashire fracking site which could see the release of methane and other gases into the atmosphere.
The three anti-fracking campaigners released from jail by the Court of Appeal yesterday said they would continue to take direct action against fossil fuels until they saw change.
Most of the notes about a recent meeting between a minister and the shale gas industry have been redacted “in the public interest” or because they contained confidential information, a government department has said.