Efforts by energy companies and the Government to get fracking off the ground in the UK are being fought every step of the way by protesters. As North Yorkshire County Council meets to discuss ...

FRACKING can go ahead in England, with the government lifting a ban on the controversial process. Fracking in the UK has been a controversial subject within local communities and among MPs due to ...

Liz Truss has revealed that she will reverse the ban on fracking, in a controversial move to stimulate more domestic gas supplies. The process, which is more properly known as hydraulic fracturing, ...

For the first time in four years a council in England has voted to allow an application to frack for shale gas. Councillors in North Yorkshire approved plans for the controversial extraction process ...

The government has given the go-ahead for a firm to resume the controversial technique known as fracking to exploit gas in Lancashire. The firm, Cuadrilla, was stopped from fracking after two small ...

The East Riding potentially sits atop one of the UK's most abundant shale deposits but we are only just learning the scale and consequences of it, a geologist has said. Ed Hough, of the British ...

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The government has been accused of a major u-turn on fracking after MPs approved plans to allow the controversial process to take place under national parks and other protected areas. The move has ...

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For the first time in four years a council in England has voted to allow an application to frack for shale gas. Councillors in North Yorkshire approved plans for the controversial extraction process ...