Fracking for UK onshore oil and gas hit the headlines again during 2025. The year opened with the announcement by Europa Oil ...

Protesters today held a demonstration against the controversial natural gas extraction process called fracking - on a village green opposite the Chancellor's constituency office. The process of ...

Revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF): A public consultation on revisions to the NPPF closes on 10 March 2026. A ...

A CONTROVERSIAL method of extracting gas which has been blamed for causing earth tremors could become a common practice across the Lothians after a UK ban was lifted. Did you know with a Digital ...

Liz Truss’s claims gas from fracking could flow in six months has been called into doubt – with one company estimating it could take as long as 18 months. The government lifted the ban on fracking on ...

Liz Truss has set herself up for a new fight with environmental groups and green Tories, as she confirmed she is lifting Boris Johnson's ban on fracking. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the ...

Fracking is a process to force gas out of shale rock by injecting water and chemicals into it under pressure A petroleum exploration company has said it will use conventional horizontal drilling ...

Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania ...

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Drinking water could be contaminated with methane gas and chemicals due to fracking, water companies have warned. Water UK, which represents all major UK water suppliers, said the shale gas extraction ...

Fracking firms plan to drill up to 68 shale gas wells in England in the next five years, after being handed new rights to explore across an estimated 4,500 square miles of land. At least 14 of the new ...