UK energy bills are set to reach £3,549 a year from October, as regulator Ofgem announced an 80 percent hike to bills. The typical household’s annual bill is currently £1,971, yet this is forecast to ...

Simon Clarke said that fracking should be done “in the most sensitive way possible” when speaking to Sky News ahead of Liz Truss’s confirmation that the ban on the practise will be lifted. The ...

American energy production is skyrocketing, and pundits are promising everything from millions of jobs to energy independence. All of this could be put in jeopardy, though, if we don’t get serious ...

Prime Minister Liz Truss is due to lift the UK’s fracking ban despite the risk of “serious” environmental damage. But do you support this decision? Vote in our poll. Lord Deben, chair of the Climate ...

A leading geologist who advised the government on fracking has told Sky News that in his view the UK "could have another go" at the controversial shale gas extraction method, which was suspended ...

Despite all the hype that fracking the UK will mean cheaper energy bills, it is increasingly clear that the opposite is the case, writes Lesley Docksey. And who will pay the cost? Taxpayers, energy ...

Cuadrilla's oil drilling operation in Balcombe has become the focus for anti-fracking protests Recent studies from the US have again raised questions about the impact of hydraulic fracturing, or ...

“FRACKING is just another tool in our toolbox,” said John Dewar, operations director for Third Energy, which is behind the application for fracking being debated by North Yorkshire County Council ...

Fracking could take place in the suburbs after ministers announced plans to open up swathes of Britain to energy companies. The government on Monday invited companies to bid for the rights to explore ...

Horizontal fracking can go ahead, the government has said, in a landmark ruling for the UK shale gas industry. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has approved plans for fracking at Cuadrilla's Preston ...

Recent studies from the US have again raised questions about the impact of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on water supplies. These show that chemicals, including methane and arsenic, have been ...