Fracking

Iconic solar farm is still set to be built, but hopes of a community share issue have been shelved after latest government policy changes

Fracking in Sites of Special Scientific Interest and other protected areas will be banned in latest shale gas policy reversal, but green campaigners warn more stringent regulation still needed

Amendment to allow fracking beneath National Parks will now face division vote in Parliament

Members of Secondary Legislation Committee will meet today to discuss changes to legislation that critics say could ease ban on fracking in National Parks

UPDATED Averil Macdonald says women are less likely to be pursuaded by the facts around shale gas exploration than men

Averil Macdonald's suggestion women oppose fracking because they don't understand it only harms the shale gas industry she is trying to champion

Plans for 5MW solar farm get green light in village once earmarked for shale oil exploration

Environment Minister Mark H Durkan announces there will be a "presumption against" the extraction of unconventional hydrocarbons

Energy Minister accuses anti-fracking campaigners of thinking there is 'a bottomless pit of bill-payers' money to fund renewable energy generation'

The Task Force on Shale Gas' latest recommendations don't go far enough, but if the government wants to be seen as serious about decarbonisation it must embrace them