The Government’s plan to establish the UK shale gas industry through the controversial process of fracking is taking longer than expected, a new report has said. The National Audit Office (NAO) report ...

Fracking has been declared safe in a new report, provided best practice and effective regulation are robustly enforced. A review of the often controversial process of extracting shale gas has been ...

Fracking has long been a controversial practice in the UK, with environmental campaigners picketing sites for years. Attempts to establish a UK shale gas industry were mired by setbacks as concerns ...

Campaigners have criticised the Government for failing to consider measures which they claim could reduce the environmental impact of fracking at Cuadrilla’s controversial Preston New Road site.

It has been called alternately the future of energy that will make our bills plummet, or an expensive disaster that will wreck the environment and even cause earthquakes. Fracking - hydraulic ...

A major new scientific study has concluded that the controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking poses a “significant” risk to human health and British wildlife, and that an EU-wide ...

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

Fracking for oil and gas is a safe process, providing proper safety measures are taken, according to an independent report. Fracking is seen as a controversial way of extracting gas or oil from the ...

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