Fracking

Fracking's about as far from locally controlled energy as you can get. We can do so much better, says David Powell at the New Economics Foundation

Majority of people declare themselves unlikely to ever buy a house near a fracking site

The government's support for fracking is part of an economic and technological orthodoxy that has done the global economy few favours over the past decade - a change needs to come and the Paris Agreement can provide it

Communities secretary Sajid Javid has accepted an appeal from Cuadrilla against an earlier decision to turn down their plans to frack on the Fylde

Councillors are set to decide in the next week whether to allow IGas to drill two exploratory wells

US tanker to dock at Ineos plant in Grangemouth, less than 24 hours after the Labour party said it would ban fracking

Shadow Chancellor sketches out vision for an 'environmentally sustainable' economy in step with the global trend towards government intervention

Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary to tell party conference a Jeremy Corbyn government would impose a full ban on fracking

Despite strong government support, fracking company Cuadrilla says progress on the ground remains slow, as it awaits a decision on two key sites in Lancashire

Advertising Standards Authority overturns its previous ruling and states Greenpeace's fracking claims were 'not materially misleading'