Fracking

Drilling set to start within weeks, after government controversially signs off on latest fracking project

Accusation comes only weeks before the UK's first fracking in seven years

Friends of the Earth says revised national planning policy makes it 'virtually impossible' for councils to refuse fracking schemes

Government ends quarterly gauging of attitudes to fracking, nuclear, electric vehicles and smart meters

Report was with ministers in 2015 but only published three years later, days after a key fracking permit was awarded

After independent financial resilience assessment, Cuadrilla granted fracking permit by energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry

Changes to planning rules would give Business Secretary final decision on major fracking projects in England, in a move campaigners argue would bypass local concerns

Energy and Clean Growth Minister stresses need for ambitious climate policy, but doubles down on support for fracking

Written Statement sets out plans to accelerate fracking development, as critics accuse ministers of undermining green rhetoric

Director of Third Energy, which wants to frack in North Yorkshire, is Conservative donor