Keyword: Fracking

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Ineos Buys Engie UK Fracking Licenses

10.03.2017 - Ineos Shale said it has completed the acquisition of the entire UK onshore petroleum exploration and development license interests of Engie E&P UK, increasing the area covered by...

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National Trust Charity Holds Out Against Shale Probes

17.02.2017 - UK charity National Trust is standing firm against allowing seismic surveying – a prerequisite for shale gas exploration – at its historic Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, despite...

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Ineos May Invoke Mining Act Over Fracking

08.02.2017 - Days after Scotland launched a four-month public consultation on fracking, which exploration companies and environmentalists alike hope will see their position confirmed, olefins...

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Scotland Launches Fracking Referendum

03.02.2017 - Fracking could provide “important benefits” for the petrochemical sector, the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)-led government said at the official launch of a public consultation...

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Ineos Unfearful of Robin Hood’s Bow

04.01.2017 - In its drive to leave an imprint on the British landscape, olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos has been beating the drum for several years, and the now partly repatriated former...

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Obama Administration Tightens Environmental Safety

23.12.2016 - As US President Barack Obama’s days in office wind down and in the gap before the next president, Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 21, 2017, the so-called “lame duck” is showing...

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ExxonMobil CEO Chosen for US Secretary of State

19.12.2016 - Continuing in the mode of choosing people for his cabinet who are not politicians and who have ties to industry, US president-elect, Donald Trump, has chosen ExxonMobil’s chairman...

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Ineos Opens new UK Headquarters

08.12.2016 - Olefins and polyolefins giant Ineos, headquartered in Switzerland for the past six years, has officially opened a second corporate base in the UK after quitting the country for tax...