Fracking for shale gas is not guaranteed to provide the "silver bullet" needed to solve Britain's high energy bill woes, according to MPs. Although...
What does 'fracking' mean to you? A slang version of a swear word used as to avoid censorship? A new dance wave hitting the discothèques? Or a potential solution to the demand for gas over the next 200 years?
Is a dash for gas the answer? Gas is the cleanest of the three fossil fuels and emits only half as much CO2 as coal. Estimates vary on the amount of shale gas available, but the consensus is that we have enough for over 100 years, supplying at least a quarter of our energy needs in that time.
Or the accidental fracktivists It's always the case. That karmic force of coincidence* which means you learn the most obscure word in the Engl...
I thought a knew a fair amount about environmental issues and even more about the English language. But when a friend passed me over an arti...
Greenpeace campaigners erected a fake drilling platform outside the Conservative club in George Osborne's constituency in a protest against fracking o...
Renewable technologies represent one of the few ready and easily deployable solutions to the energy challenges we face. But as those challenges increase in years to come, what would happen if we didn't turn to that technology to meet them? What would the wider impacts be if we failed to replace the finite fossil energy sources which sustain our very way of life?
As with all questions of energy supply in the 21st Century - the issues are complex. It seems that shale gas will indeed be exploited in the UK, if not in France and many other jurisdictions. However it is unlikely to prove the perfect solution to cheap energy security that some advocates have claimed.
In the minds of many Polish politicians and the majority of the public, shale gas is not so much an economic windfall, or a new industry promising employment, or an alternative source of fossil fuels, but a mythological weapon against a mythological enemy, a gargantuan pepper spray against the bad Russian bear.
The UK government's decision to resume fracking has been welcomed by the oil industry, and widely lambasted by environmental campaigners. But to a large extent the debate about the potential of shale gas in this country has completely missed the point.
James Arthur won The X Factor, Paul McCartney fronted Nirvana, the Pope tweeted and a monkey in a coat was found in IKEA. Yes, folks, the Mayans we...
Fracking, the controversial shale gas extraction technique, has been given the green light to resume in the UK. Moves by gas company Cuadrilla to e...
George Osborne is to approve the construction of up to 30 gas-fired power stations as part of tomorrow's Autumn Statement, angering environmentalists ...
Mr Davey says he hopes to give the green light to fracking: but, as he lies awake in the early hours, imagine what questions will be racing through his mind?
Governments baying for economic growth at all cost are digging us deeper into the quagmire. They pursue this because they measure success in money, not in wellbeing or protection of the ecosystems on which we all actually depend in order to stay alive.
Some have called the phenomenon "green civil society" and a "new Bulgarian uprising", drawing parallels with the Arab Spring and the Occupy movements in western Europe and the United States.
Using more gas is not only consistent with our green objectives, it reinforces them.
The harsh reality is that, even when you factor in the environmental risks, fracking could be the best short-term solution for the UK's energy needs.
In 2011, two peculiar things happened just outside of Blackpool. There were earthquakes, two of them to be precise which were later attributed to Cuadrillas fracking practices. Naturally, this is not the best way to reassure people of the benefits of hydraulic fracturing.
As London literally warms up for the greatest show on earth, Governor Mitt Romney will meet Prime Minister David Cameron amidst last minute preparations for the Olympics Romney himself led ten short years ago.
Today is the day the prime minister is supposed to deliver his first major speech on the environment since he came into office two years ago, pledging almost immediately to lead the "greenest government ever".
The controversial method of drilling for gas, known as "fracking", has been given the go-ahead despite causing two earth tremors in the UK last year. ...
Protesters have scaled a drilling rig in Lancashire that extracts shale gas after a report blamed the practice, known as fracking, for causing a numbe...
A controversial "fracking" technique to extract gas from the ground was the "highly probable" cause of earth tremors which hit Lancashire's Fylde coas...
