Fracking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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