Ineos is now offering to drill a test site that could be monitored for seismic activity and carbon emissions. The process involves blasting shale rock with water,…

The stand-off comes as one of the most influential Conservative politicians outside of London said Treasury officials “don’t fundamentally get” the impact of the cost of living…

The earthquake risk from fracking is no worse than coal mining and can be mitigated, a government review that could see the ban on the industry lifted…

But Lord Frost, the former Cabinet Office minister, is among more than 30 MPs and peers who have declared the ban policy “unconservative” and said shale gas…

The company spearheading Britain’s stalled fracking industry has been thrown a lifeline by the Government in the clearest sign yet that ministers are rethinking their stance on…

Meanwhile Kwasi Kwarteng, the Business Secretary, also warned P&O it may have breached its legal duties by failing to inform him in advance of the sackings and…

‘To frack or not to frack,” said Lee Anderson, “that is the question.” Ah, but is it nobler in the mind to freeze to death or to…

Russia is also now threatening to close the 1,200km Nord Stream pipeline which, since 2011, has pumped gas to Germany. Even during the Cold War, the Soviets…

Francis Egan is cautiously hoping that the mood may finally be turning his way. The 60-year-old is chief executive of a company whose work in the UK…

Robert Jenrick, a former communities secretary, called for a “more pragmatic energy policy” that would ease soaring bills while the UK strives to hit net zero. “I…

There has been a moratorium over fracking since November 2019 – approved by Mr Johnson and adopted the month before the general election.  But it is understood that…

The European Commission on Tuesday published plans to cut EU demand for Russian gas by two-thirds and make Europe “independent from Russian fossil fuels well before 2030”. …

Although it produces a domestic gas supply, fracking is unpopular with the public and has prompted safety concerns over damage to buildings and water pollution. But in…

Almost 40 Conservative MPs and peers have issued an eleventh-hour plea to Boris Johnson to reverse plans to seal two of the country’s only viable shale gas…

The disclosure comes after the Prime Minister acknowledged that there was “merit” in the idea of the temporary “use of hydrocarbons in this country” after MPs pressed…

So if there are domestic supplies to be had, it plainly makes sense that these should be used in preference to reliance on potentially hostile, autocratic regimes…

“People do not want large-scale industrialisation of the British countryside. And given the gas would be produced by private firms and sold at the highest price internationally,…