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,...
Twenty-two of the activists arrested by Russian authorities aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise will be held in jail for two months without charge, a Murmansk...
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...
The Greenpeace activists who attempted to board a Russian oil rig are “obviously not pirates”, according to the country’s president Vladimir Putin. However, he insists they...
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is close to arriving at the port of Murmansk after being boarded by Russian authorities last week. The environmental group’s lawyers...
Two huge underground water sources have been discovered in the Turkana region of northern Kenya. The largest of the two aquifers, found deep underneath the desert,...
Fracking is not “the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be,” the UK energy secretary Ed Davey has claimed. Davey, who...
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...
The 2010 American documentary GasLand focuses on communities in the United States that have been impacted by natural gas drilling, specifically by the method known as fracking. After...
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...
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...
The Church of England has told its followers that shale gas extraction by fracking might risk the future of “God’s glorious creation”. In a message to...
David Cameron has said that banning fracking in the UK would be “a big mistake”. Despite concerns over the environmental impact of shale gas extraction, the...