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...
France’s constitutional court has upheld its national ban on fracking, ruling that the ban is necessary to protect the environment. The court decided on Friday that...
We prefer non-fossil fuel investments but make an exception with natural gas as we believe it is a beneficial transition fuel, substituting more polluting fossil fuels...
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...
General Electric (GE) has said it has an energy efficient process that can reduce the amount of toxic waste spills from fracking operations, and that it...
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,...
Reading the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) feels rather as Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors must have felt in the 1993...
George Osborne has been criticised after delivering a speech light with positive messages for the green economy at the Conservative party conference. Speaking in Manchester, the...
A founding shareholder of Dart Energy, which works in the unconventional gas industry, is demanding the troubled company removes a number of board members. The company...
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...
Investment house Alliance Trust invests in non-fossil fuels, but makes an exception for natural gas, which it describes as a “beneficial transition fuel”. It adds that...
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...
Leading economist has warned over David Cameron declaration that shale gas will help keeping gas prices down, but added that the environmental risks exist. Lord Nicholas...
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...