The government said today there was no evidence of risk from lower volume fracking. This suggests, for the first time, that the government’s proposed ban on fracking will not include lower-volume processes, such as proppant squeeze.
Keep up to date with July 2024’s news with our digest of daily updated headlines about the business, regulation and campaigns around UK fracking, shale, and onshore oil and gas.
Ed Miliband has been appointed secretary of state for energy security and net zero in the new Starmer administration.
An oil company was chastised by a High Court judge yesterday over relying on out-of-date law on the impact of its proposals.
The decision to approve oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) was unlawful, the High Court heard today.
A campaigner opposing oil drilling in one of the UK’s most scenic areas is at the High Court this week in a case against the government and an American-owned corporation.
Lord Deben, the Conservative peer and former chair of the Climate Change Committee, has made a dramatic intervention at the High Court in support of a legal challenge that accuses the government of breaching the Climate Change Act.
Claire Coutinho has been appointed the new secretary of state for energy and net zero.
The West Sussex village that saw a summer of anti-fracking protests 10 years ago has taken the government to court over oil testing.
The government’s new environmental watchdog has been on the opposite side of the legal argument from a minister in its first court case.
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