04.11.2019
- As the UK’s out-of-turn national election got under way, the government on Nov. 3 said it would impose an immediate moratorium on fracking, as drilling for shale could cause too...
04.04.2019
- Ruling in a long-running dispute between anti-fracking campaigners and Ineos, the UK Court of Appeals has handed an at least partial victory to the protestors. The judgment...
13.03.2019
- The British government’s efforts to promote shale gas keep getting more difficult. After a series of minor earth tremors last autumn mandated yet another interruption of...
14.02.2019
- Ineos Shale and unconventional gas exploration company Cuadrilla have apparently lost their bid to have the UK government loosen rules mandating a stop to drilling at prospective...
03.01.2019
- Both Cuadrilla and Ineos Shale have called on the government to raise the threshold for seismic tremors so that drilling can continue uninterrupted. Current British rules oblige...
18.10.2018
- With the opening of a well by shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla early this week, fracking activity resumed in the UK for the first time in seven years. In July, the...
15.11.2017
- UK shale gas firm Cuadrilla will begin making the country’s first-ever payments to a £100,000 community benefit fund for households near its fracking sites. The company said 29...
10.02.2016
- Companies wishing to carry out hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Yorkshire will have to prove they have made efforts to reduce the impact of drilling on the landscape, a...
