The flare stack at Cuadrilla’s former fracking site near Blackpool was removed this lunchtime. Opponents of Cuadrilla’s shale ...

The company behind the claims, the Texas-based Heyco Energy Group, said results of an assessment of the field around Gainsborough were “outstanding”. Heyco said the gasfield, known as the Gainsborough ...

Anti-fracking campaigners were outside council headquarters in North Yorkshire again today – nearly nine years after councillors approved plans for hydraulic fracturing in Ryedale. Protest outside the ...

At least 10 lorry loads of equipment were delivered today to decommission two former shale gas wells at Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking site near Blackpool. Decommissioning equipment delivered to ...

The UK must swap oil and gas for clean electricity to meet its next set of carbon reduction targets, the government’s climate advisor said today. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said that by 2040 ...

A campaigner who brought a legal challenge against oil production plans in Lincolnshire, was escorted out of an energy conference in the county this morning. Mathilda Dennis, a campaigner against ...

Decommissioning of Cuadrilla’s mothballed fracking wells is due to get underway within days after a crane was delivered to the site near Blackpool. Crane at Preston New Road former fracking site, 20 ...

Ambitious claims about potential production from a shale gas discovery in Lincolnshire have been described as “so misleading as to be ridiculous”.

Analysis by DrillOrDrop reveals that the West Newton oil and gas field in East Yorkshire has seen more than 15 years of delays, missed deadlines and changing plans.

Permission for oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds has been quashed following the landmark climate judgement by the Supreme Court last month. Another key decision, to allow a new coal mine in ...

Lord Deben, the Conservative peer and former chair of the Climate Change Committee, has made a dramatic intervention at the High Court in support of a legal challenge that accuses the government of ...

The government is consulting on new guidance for the offshore oil and gas industry following the Supreme Court judgement in the legal challenge over climate emissions brought by Sarah Finch.