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The White House effect: Biden, Trump, and the outlook for green business
The White House effect: Biden, Trump, and the outlook for green business

Whoever wins the 2020 election will steer the world's biggest economy through the start of a critical decade for green business

  • Politics
  • 02 November 2020
'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears
'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears

Shell and BP are writing down assets while a raft of US fracking firms are entering bankruptcy protection – change is coming to the fossil fuel industry faster than anyone expected

  • Energy
  • 03 July 2020
Net Zero by 2050: Your need-to-know green guide to the Conservative Party Manifesto
Net Zero by 2050: Your need-to-know green guide to the Conservative Party Manifesto

Tory party promises to ramp up offshore wind capacity and roll out a comprehensive fast-charging network, but skirts demands for radical 'climate emergency' programme

  • Politics
  • 25 November 2019
Anatomy of a U-turn: How fracking was halted in the UK, and what happens next
Anatomy of a U-turn: How fracking was halted in the UK, and what happens next

Was it climate fears, widespread opposition, earthquakes or incompetent PR which eventually sounded the death knell for shale gas?

  • Policy
  • 05 November 2019
Shaky ground: Government announces shock halt to shale gas support
Shaky ground: Government announces shock halt to shale gas support

In a shock U-turn the government announces moratorium on fracking in the UK, after report reveals unpredictability of forecasting tremors

  • Policy
  • 02 November 2019
Spending watchdog report a "hammer blow" for UK fracking industry
Spending watchdog report a "hammer blow" for UK fracking industry

Attempts to establish a fracking industry have made slow progress while costing the UK taxpayer more than £32m, a report from the National Audit Office has found

  • Energy
  • 23 October 2019
'Incompatible with climate policy': Scottish government rules out fracking
'Incompatible with climate policy': Scottish government rules out fracking

Scottish government confirms opposition to shale gas extraction, promising no licences will be issued for the activity

  • Energy
  • 04 October 2019
Fracking regulator requests 'extensive' data on tremors at suspended Cuadrilla site
Fracking regulator requests 'extensive' data on tremors at suspended Cuadrilla site

Shale gas operations remain paused at Lancashire site after largest seismic tremor to date was recorded last week

  • Energy
  • 03 September 2019
Fracking forced to a halt after largest tremor yet at Cuadrilla site
Fracking forced to a halt after largest tremor yet at Cuadrilla site

A 1.55 magnitude tremor stops work at Preston New Road, just days after operations resumed following a seven-month hiatus

  • Energy
  • 22 August 2019
UK shale gas reserves may be fraction of what is claimed - study
UK shale gas reserves may be fraction of what is claimed - study

University of Nottingham says new techniques give lower estimate than in 2013 report

  • Infrastructure
  • 21 August 2019
Government opens door to rethink on fracking earthquake limits
Government opens door to rethink on fracking earthquake limits

As fracking resumes in Lancashire, mixed messages emerge from government as it tones down the pro-shale gas rhetoric but hints at a review of crucial tremor rules

  • Policy
  • 15 August 2019
Our new Business Secretary must accept the reality of falling energy demand this time around
Our new Business Secretary must accept the reality of falling energy demand this time around

With Andrea Leadsom returning to energy policy as part of Boris Johnson's government, Andrew Warren wonders if energy demand myths will once more be used to push for fracking

  • Politics
  • 06 August 2019
Fracking wipes out any chance of UK hitting net zero target, Labour warns
Fracking wipes out any chance of UK hitting net zero target, Labour warns

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calls on the government to ban fracking 'once and for all'

  • Politics
  • 29 July 2019
Proportion of public 'very concerned' about climate change hits record high
Proportion of public 'very concerned' about climate change hits record high

More than a third of the public are very worried about climate change, according to official government survey

  • Management
  • 09 May 2019
Fracking tsar quits with attack on 'highly successful' environmental activists
Fracking tsar quits with attack on 'highly successful' environmental activists

Natascha Engel slams government for 'political decisions' that have made hampered development of shale gas industry

  • Infrastructure
  • 29 April 2019
It's time to talk about fracking
It's time to talk about fracking

Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse speaks out ahead of a Commons debate on shale gas extraction

  • Politics
  • 28 March 2019
MPs warn taxpayers could face 'hefty bill' from North Sea and fracking decommissioning
MPs warn taxpayers could face 'hefty bill' from North Sea and fracking decommissioning

Public Accounts Committee report calls on government to get a better handle on future fossil fuel infrastructure decommissioning costs

  • Infrastructure
  • 27 March 2019
 Fracking plan 'will release same CO2 as 300 million new cars'
Fracking plan 'will release same CO2 as 300 million new cars'

Labour study comes as UK government faces pressure from courts and councils

  • Infrastructure
  • 25 March 2019
'Climate change effects': High Court brands government fracking guidelines 'unlawful'
'Climate change effects': High Court brands government fracking guidelines 'unlawful'

Court rules new planning guidance on fracking is unlawful as it failed to adequately consider latest scientific evidence

  • Infrastructure
  • 06 March 2019
Cottam closure to take UK coal power plant count down to six
Cottam closure to take UK coal power plant count down to six

EDF Energy announces closure of Cottam coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire, citing 'challenging market conditions', as government survey again highlights renewables popularity

  • Energy
  • 07 February 2019
Claire Perry rejects Cuadrilla calls to relax fracking tremor rules
Claire Perry rejects Cuadrilla calls to relax fracking tremor rules

November letter from Energy and Clean Growth Minister to Cuadrilla boss reasserts that existing traffic light system is 'fit for purpose'

  • Energy
  • 14 January 2019
Green buildings, no fracking and net zero CO2: Five key takeaways from Manchester's 2040 vision
Green buildings, no fracking and net zero CO2: Five key takeaways from Manchester's 2040 vision

New draft of Greater Manchester development strategy puts environment and climate front and centre of 2040 vision

  • Politics
  • 08 January 2019
Local councils heading for fracking showdown with government
Local councils heading for fracking showdown with government

Greater Manchester tells firms they are not welcome as discontent spreads

  • Infrastructure
  • 07 January 2019
Government clarifies controversial Claire Perry fracking industry meeting
Government clarifies controversial Claire Perry fracking industry meeting

Labour's Barry Gardiner has accused the Energy and Clean Growth Minister of misleading Parliament over shale gas industry meeting that she 'dropped in on'

  • Energy
  • 11 December 2018
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