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UK Imposing Fracking Moratorium

04.11.2019 - As the UK’s out-of-turn national election got under way, the government on Nov. 3 said it would impose an immediate moratorium on fracking, as drilling for shale could cause too...

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UK Court Cans Ineos Anti-Protest Injunction

04.04.2019 - Ruling in a long-running dispute between anti-fracking campaigners and Ineos, the UK Court of Appeals has handed an at least partial victory to the protestors. The judgment...

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Court Tosses out UK Fracking Guidance

13.03.2019 - The British government’s efforts to promote shale gas keep getting more difficult. After a series of minor earth tremors last autumn mandated yet another interruption of...

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UK Won't Ease Quake Rules for Shale

14.02.2019 - Ineos Shale and unconventional gas exploration company Cuadrilla have apparently lost their bid to have the UK government loosen rules mandating a stop to drilling at prospective...

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Shale Firms Wants Fewer Fracking Limits

03.01.2019 - Both Cuadrilla and Ineos Shale have called on the government to raise the threshold for seismic tremors so that drilling can continue uninterrupted. Current British rules oblige...

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Cuadrilla Resumes Fracking in UK

18.10.2018 - With the opening of a well by shale gas exploration company Cuadrilla early this week, fracking activity resumed in the UK for the first time in seven years. In July, the...

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Cuadrilla to Pay Households near Fracking Sites

15.11.2017 - UK shale gas firm Cuadrilla will begin making the country’s first-ever payments to a £100,000 community benefit fund for households near its fracking sites. The company said 29...

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Yorkshire MP Urges Shale Industry to Protect Landscape

10.02.2016 - Companies wishing to carry out hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Yorkshire will have to prove they have made efforts to reduce the impact of drilling on the landscape, a...