Fracking may contaminate water supplies in the UK, and may not be possible in some areas due to resource scarcity, the trade body Water UK has...
Helen Ghosh, director-general of the National Trust, has stated the organisation supports technologies that “harvest nature” rather than mines it. The comments follow Ghosh telling the...
The National Trust has reaffirmed its current stance against fracking, after its director-general told the Times that the charity had an “open mind” about the technology....
Greenpeace has launched a legal challenge to stop companies from fracking in England, and to halt what it calls “reckless and presumptuous” plans for shale gas...
Fracking poses a “serious threat” of water contamination, including in drinking water, according to a report that also claims that 280 billion gallons of radioactive waste...
Anti-fracking protestors have begun to shut down their camp outside an exploratory drilling site near the West Sussex village of Balcombe. After two months of protests,...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said it is in the public interest to prosecute former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, after she was arrested at shale gas drilling site...
UKIP’s energy spokesperson, Roger Helmer, has accused anti-fracking campaigners of being “eco-freaks” and trying to kill off the “greatest new economic opportunity”. Speaking at the party’s conference...
Former chief scientific adviser to the government Sir David King has said shale gas will not be a major player in the future compared to nuclear...
The Department for Communities and Local Government is considering a reform of oil and gas drilling planning applications under which companies would not be required to...
Campaign groups involved in the anti-fracking protests in Balcombe, West Sussex, have planned a 28 day blockade to the drill site. The site, which is occupied...
Former Green party leader and current Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas has been arrested in Balcombe, Sussex, during protests against fracking firm Cuadrilla drilling at a...
Action from over a dozen activists has shut down the Staffordshire headquarters of Cuadrilla Resources, the firm whose exploratory shale gas drilling in Sussex has been...
Anti-fracking protestors have set up camp near the controversial exploratory shale gas drilling site in Balcombe, west Sussex. The five day ‘Reclaim the Power’ action camp,...
Fracking firm Cuadrilla has said that it is “unlikely” that its exploration site at Balcombe in West Sussex will be used for shale gas extraction in...