Environmental and human rights campaigners have claimed a "fantastic" victory after leading judges ruled that an injunction granted to energy giant Ineos was "too wide and insufficiently clear".
Environmental and human rights campaigners are set to find out if they have been successful in the latest round of their fight against a "draconian" injunction granted to energy giant Ineos.
Communities should have greater control over fracking, ministers have been told, amid concerns over the potential "random industrialisation" of the countryside.
The complex web of U.S. pipelines, tanks and export terminals that’s helped make America the world’s top oil producer is causing a headache for some crude buyers.
Cuadrilla and Ineos decided last month that it was time to ramp up the pressure on the UK Government to relax the seismic shocks threshold for their shale gas (and oil) exploration effort onshore.
An injunction granted to energy giant Ineos has created an "impermissible severe chilling effect" on campaigners' right to protest against fracking, the Court of Appeal has heard.
Environmental and human rights campaigners will take their fight against a "draconian" injunction granted to energy giant Ineos to the Court of Appeal.
Rules governing tremors from fracking will not be relaxed, the Government has said, as public concern over earthquakes from the controversial process grows.
By Corin Taylor, Director at UK Onshore Oil and Gas
This cold New Year’s week brought news that LNG imports to the UK in December were at their highest level in more than three years, with more LNG arriving in the fourth quarter of last year than in the rest of the year combined.
Since operations restarted in October, Cuadrilla has had to pause activity a number of times following tremors at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire, north-west England.
The North American fracking market - already expected to be a downer for the holidays - is turning out to be even worse than expected, according to the world’s biggest oil-service provider.
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.