Tag: fracking

"I am prepared to face the consequences of my decision", he said.

“Is he aware the safety of the public is not a currency on which some of us choose to speculate?”, Sir Greg Knight asked.

It comes as a geology professor warned the prime minister that she is "280 million years too late" if she wants to create a shale gas industry in the UK.

"You told me this morning when I was in here... that you would drink this water," he says to the commission. "So, would you drink it?"

In March, Kwasi Kwarteng said it would take "up to a decade" to extract sufficient volumes from fracking - at a high cost for communities and our precious countryside.

This interactive map below features the climate, fracking and environmental issues in your constituency with a breakdown below of where candidates stand on these issues. With the general election upon us, these are the constituencies where candidates’ positions on fracking, energy, air pollution, airport expansion and climate change issues could be decisive if you are ...

“Fossil fuels are so inherently dirty and toxic, that they require sacrificial people and sacrificial places, they always have.” These are the words of environmental activist Naomi Klein, delivering the Edward Said lecture in London earlier this month. As if following her cue, yesterday an alliance of fossil fuel politicians and ...

Global warming is spiralling out of control at the same time as our politicians try to figure out the best way to “maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas”. These aren’t just regular politicians doing this, these are politicians on the Energy and Climate Change Committee. Yesterday in parliament, fossil ...