The Government’s plan to establish the UK shale gas industry through the controversial process of fracking is taking longer than expected, a new report has said. The National Audit Office (NAO) report ...

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Five years ago, The Heartland Institute set out to correct some misperceptions about the hydraulic fracturing process (commonly known as “fracking”) that had gained traction in the opinions of a ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

Campaigners have lost the latest High Court challenge over fracking at Cuadrilla’s controversial Preston New Road site. Friends of the Earth claimed the Environment Agency (EA) failed to consider ...

In West Sussex, environmental activists hold up pun-laden signs near the entrance of the Cuadrilla site in Balcombe. "Get the frack off our land," reads one, while another claims "Fracking kills: ...

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.

Hydraulic fracturing no doubt has helped vastly expand oil and natural gas production across the U.S. and has been hailed as a solution to the U.S. energy crisis. There are tens of thousands of active ...