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 ...

The UK lifted a temporarily ban on fracking amid the ongoing energy crisis. It had temporarily banned fracking over fears of earthquakes from the shale-gas extraction process. UK energy bills are ...

The reversal of Government support for fracking follows years of opposition from campaigners and local communities. Attempts to establish a UK shale gas industry proved slow and were thwarted by ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British energy company Cuadrilla said on Friday it would begin fracking a shale gas well at its Lancashire site on Oct. 13 after a court removed the final hurdle to the first ...

The Centrica boss said there is "a lot of emotion" in the debate around fracking Fracking could boost UK energy supplies and reduce bills, according to Chris O'Shea, chief executive of British Gas ...

The UK’s only two shale wells are to be abandoned, ending more than a decade of controversy over fracking in this country. The firm said it would permanently seal the shale gas wells, even as chief ...

Tory MPs last night protested after the only company to frack for shale gas in Britain was ordered to permanently plug and abandon its wells. Energy company Cuadrilla was told by the Government’s Oil ...

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 ...

The government is facing calls for an investigation into the safety of shale gas extraction over fears of a link to recent earth tremors in Blackpool. Energy company Cuadrilla has suspended fracking ...

In theory, we all know that major technical revolutions change and fundamentally disrupt the face of the world we live in. In practice, analysts of all stripes are too often glacially slow to realise ...

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The UK’s only two shale wells are to be abandoned, ending more than a decade of controversy over fracking in this country. Energy company Cuadrilla said the UK Government’s Oil and Gas Authority(OGA) ...