In this week’s listings Green Party week in United Resistance campaign at Preston New Road; Speakers include co-leader Jonathan Bartley and former leader, Natalie Bennett; Information events; Legal observer training; Plus meetings and rallies. Diary for all of June 2018 and beyond. Please let us know here if you’d like us to add […]
People at opposite ends of the fracking debate have received leading honours in the Queen’s birthday list, announced today.
Ineos has received planning permission to explore for shale gas at a site in the village of Harthill in South Yorkshire.
Fashion designer, Dame Vivienne Westwood, and her son, Joe Corre, have accused the Government of hypocrisy over its policies on plastics and fracking.
Cuadrilla told the High Court today it faced an imminent protest threat to its Lancashire fracking site. But a group of environmental campaigners denied there had been an escalation in action at the site and accused Cuadrilla of submitting evidence based on ‘snippets taken out of context’.
Politicians are calling for evidence on the cumulative effects of shale gas exploration and extraction.
The fracking company, Cuadrilla, has begun returning its Becconsall site in Lancashire to farmland after the county council refused another extension of planning permission.
MPs from former mining areas are among supporters of a parliamentary motion calling for 500m gaps between fracking and ex collieries.
Two environmental campaigners who challenged Ineos’ injunction against shale gas protests have won the right to go to the Court of Appeal.
Ministers are considering taking fracking decisions in England out of local control and allowing shale gas exploration wells to be drilled without the need for planning applications.
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