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Fracking Protests at London Fashion Week

21.02.2018 - British designer Vivienne Westwood used her platform at the London Fashion Week late last week to protest fracking. British press reports said the event staged by the activist...

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Derbyshire Planning Committee Rejects Fracking

06.02.2018 - At a more than four-hour meeting on Feb. 5, the planning committee of the Derbyshire County Council in northeast England voted to deny permission for Ineos to carry out pre...

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Sipchem Mulls US Shale-based Projects

01.02.2018 - Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) is considering investing in shale-based projects in the US, CEO Amad Al Ohali said in an interview with Bloomberg news agency...

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Ineos to Challenge Scottish Shale Gas Ban

11.01.2018 - Ineos Shale, UK-based exploration and fracking arm of Swiss-based Ineos group, on Jan. 10 announced it planned to legally challenge Scotland’s permanent moratorium on fracking, as...

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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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Ineos Buys UK Shale Licenses from Total

06.11.2017 - Widening its already leading position as a holder of UK shale gas exploration licenses, Ineos has struck a deal with a subsidiary of French oil and gases group Total. The Swiss...

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Scotland Anchors Fracking Ban in Planning Framework

27.10.2017 - By a vote of 91 to 28, the Scottish Parliament, known colloquially as Holyrood, has moved to anchor its ban on fracking in Scotland’s long-term National Planning Framework, to...

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Shell and Ineos Play US, China Shale Cards

24.10.2017 - Multinational oil and petrochemicals group Shell is preparing to begin construction on its planned $10 billion petrochemicals site in the US state of Pennsylvania, close to...