Keyword: Fracking

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Trump Seen as Bowing to Fossil Fuels Industry

30.11.2016 - As US president-elect and prior to that as a candidate, Donald Trump has taken many positions that dismay environmental advocates. The New York businessman turned politician, who...

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Most Scots Back Fracking Moratorium

24.11.2016 - Supporters and opponents of fracking in Scotland continue to be divided as to the merits of shale gas exploration, but more than half of those responding to a poll taken after...

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Mammoth US Find Excites Fracking Industry

22.11.2016 - A find in western Texas of what is being billed as the largest-ever shale oil and gas reserves at a single site – possibly worth as much as $900 billion in revenue – is exciting...

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Innovation Makes A Difference

21.11.2016 - The biggest – listed – European chemical manufacturers (Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel, Arkema, BASF, Bayer, Covestro, DSM, Evonik, Johnson Matthey, K+S, Lanxess, Solvay, Syngenta...

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Ineos Takes Fracking Plea to UK Labour

25.10.2016 - With its warnings that ignoring the benefits of shale gas exploitation would have dire consequences for society having fallen on deaf ears in Scotland, Ineos has taken its case to...

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Fracking Can Go Ahead in Lancashire

07.10.2016 - In the first test of its new powers to overturn local councils’ anti-fracking decisions, the UK government has decided to allow Cuadrilla to go ahead with shale exploration at New...

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Ineos to Miss This Year’s Fracking Target

23.09.2016 - Ineos will submit five planning applications for shale gas exploration to the British government before the end of this year, falling far short of its originally announced target...

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No Fracking, no Independence, Ineos Tells Scotland

20.09.2016 - As olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos prepares to welcome the landing of the first US shale gas-derived ethane imports to its Grangemouth complex in Scotland on Sept. 27, the...