shale gas

Environment Minister: 'If and when any fracking planning application comes in, it will be for me to decide, not David Cameron'

Prime Minister warns UK 'cannot afford to miss out on fracking'

Craig Bennett warns the Treasury is pursuing a pipe dream as it seeks to bet the farm on UK shale gas

Downing Street confirms Prime Minister meant communities will receive £100,000 per drill site as he talked up shale gas potential

Party could also recognise "limited" role for shale gas at next month’s annual conference

Planning controversies, ministerial warnings of further protests and signs of Lib Dem opposition to shale gas combine in a nightmare weekend for fracking industry

Three-quarters of UK public agree government should support solar energy and almost two-thirds back encouraging wind farms, while shale gas remains unpopular

Tory peer tells the Telegraph he meant to highlight the North West as being home to 'large, uninhabited and desolate areas that are suitable for fracking

New report calculates flaring of gas from North Dakota fracking industry leading to greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to putting one million cars on the road

Lord Howell argues that it would be sensible to focus fracking efforts on the 'large, desolate and uninhabited areas' of the North East