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ANTI-FRACKING PROTESTERS TO SEE IN NEW YEAR AT YORKSHIRE SITE
Activists brave the cold by camping near Kirby Misperton where shale exploration by Third Energy has council's approval... READ MORE›
FRACKING TO GO AHEAD IN NORTH YORKSHIRE AFTER HIGH COURT RULING
Fracking will go ahead at a North Yorkshire site after environmentalists lost a legal challenge they had brought on climate change grounds... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE: WORLD'S BIGGEST OIL FIRMS TO INVEST $1 BILLION IN LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGY
Ten of the world's biggest oil companies have created a fund to invest 1 billion in technologies that would reduce carbon emissions from oil and natural gas... READ MORE›
SHALE GAS BAN 'WOULD CEMENT DECLINE OF UK MANUFACTURING'
Ratcliffe said Grangemouth, near Edinburgh, had been on its knees before Ineos decided to spend ?450m on converting the plant to accept shale gas imports... READ MORE›
LABOUR'S PLEDGE TO BAN FRACKING IN THE UK IS 'MADNESS', SAYS GMB
The Welsh government opposes fracking and has instructed local authorities to turn down applications... READ MORE›
LABOUR GOVERNMENT WOULD BAN FRACKING IN UK
The Labour party has strengthened its opposition to fracking, saying it would ban the controversial technique for extracting shale gas if it came to power... READ MORE›
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FRACKING APPLICATION REJECTED BY LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Anti-fracking campaigners visibly delighted as councillors reject Cuadrillaa??s application to drill for shale gas at Preston New Road... READ MORE›
ENERGY GIANT UNVEILS SHALE GAS PLAN
Ineos is currently building Europe's largest shale gas import facility to feed its petrochemicals plant at Grangemouth... READ MORE›
FRACKING WILL BE ALLOWED UNDER NATIONAL PARKS, UK DECIDES
Labour's shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex said allowing fracking under protected areas could lead them to be ringed by shale gas operators... READ MORE›
FRACKING SET TO BE BANNED FROM 40% OF ENGLAND'S SHALE AREAS
Guardian analysis reveals new rules agreed by government would make huge swath of protected areas off limits for shale gas exploration... READ MORE›
TORIES FORCED INTO U-TURN ON FAST-TRACK FRACKING AFTER ACCEPTING LABOUR PLANS
Donna Hume, from Friends of the Earth, said Public opinion and increasing concern from MPs has forced the government into retreat on fracking... READ MORE›
NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNCIL FRACKING DECISION A 'DECLARATION OF WAR'
The chief executive of North Yorkshire council, Richard Flinton, said the decision did not mean similar approvals would follow... READ MORE›
PRESSURE MOUNTS OVER 'SUPPRESSION' OF UK FRACKING IMPACTS REPORT
The Committee on Climate Change, which advises parliament on meeting the UK's carbon targets, submitted the report in March... READ MORE›
EXOMARS MISSION LIFTS OFF TO EXPLORE
During the joint mission by the European and Russian space agencies, the probe will circle Mars and measure tiny amounts of gases, such as methane... READ MORE›
FRACKING DECISION DUE AS LANCASHIRE MULLS MAJOR EXPANSION IN NORTH-WEST
Anti-fracking campaigners have called for permission for the sites to be refused, accusing the chancellor, George Osborne, of wanting to transform Lancashire into Texas ... READ MORE›
STORM DESMOND: ARMY AIDS RESCUE EFFORT AS COMMUNITIES STRUGGLE AFTER FLOODS
In Eamont Bridge, south of Penrith in Cumbria, 150 people were rescued by the coastguard from a flooded static caravan park... READ MORE›
FRACKING 'WILL BREAK UK CLIMATE TARGETS UNLESS RULES ARE MADE STRICTER'
Shale gas production will break the UK's climate change targets unless there is stricter regulation now, according to the government's official advisers... READ MORE›
'WE HAVE TO FIGHT THIS': NORTH YORKSHIRE VILLAGE OPPOSES FRACKING PLANS
On Friday planners at North Yorkshire county council recommended that permission be granted to a British firm, Third Energy, for testing on deposits from the area... READ MORE›
'RIDING ROUGHSHOD OVER DEMOCRACY': RESIDENTS ON FRACKING IN NORTH YORKSHIRE
Jayne Watson, a former physiotherapist turned parish councillor, had travelled to Kirby Misperton to see how the North Yorkshire decision would play out... READ MORE›
LA GAS LEAK: WORST IN US HISTORY SPEWED AS MUCH POLLUTION AS 600,000 CARS
A natural gas leak in the mountains above Los Angeles was one of the worst accidental discharges of greenhouse gases in US history... READ MORE›
MPLX TO BUY MARKWEST FOR $15.63 BILLION, CREATING FOURTH-LARGEST MLP
The acquisition which will create an MLP with a market value of 21 billion will add natural gas processing facilities to MPLX's crude-heavy portfolio... READ MORE›
FRACKING INVESTORS LOSING PATIENCE WITH PLANNING DELAYS, SAYS INDUSTRY BOSS
The comments come just ahead of a planning decision in Yorkshire on Third Energy's application for shale gas exploration... READ MORE›
OBAMA AND CANADA'S JUSTIN TRUDEAU VOW TO TACKLE METHANE EMISSIONS FROM OIL AND GAS SECTOR
Natural gas and petroleum systems constitute the largest source of U.S. methane emissions from industry... READ MORE›
ANTI-FRACKING CAMPS PLANNED IN YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE
Last year Lancashire county council ignored the advice of its own planning officers by rejecting an application from Cuadrilla... READ MORE›
AS NEW YORK GOV. CUOMO'S ENERGY POLICY WENT GREENER, NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY SPENT MORE ON LOBBYING
Cuomo's Energy Policy Went Greener, Natural Gas Industry Spent More On Lobbying By On 03 23 16 AT 4 57 PM New York Gov... READ MORE›
LOS ANGELES GAS LEAK: CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR DECLARES EMERGENCY
Hundreds of residents have been evacuated since the leak began at a nearby natural gas storage field on October 23... READ MORE›
ENERGY COMPANIES RISK $3 TRILLION AS CLIMATE TARGETS CUT DEMAND
Europe's biggest oil companies, including Royal Dutch Shell and Total, have come together to promote natural gas as a cleaner fuel to meet growing energy demand... READ MORE›
AP FACT CHECK TRUMP WRONGLY SAYS NATION IS SHORT OF COAL
But the Republican nominee incorrectly blamed the coal industry's woes solely on new federal regulations, leaving out the effects of cheap natural gas... READ MORE›