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UK ministers to be challenged in human rights court over protest injunctions

Friends of the Earth will argue private companies are allowed to create their own public order laws that stifle demonstrations

Blackpool hit by earthquake that sounded like rattling train with furniture shaking

Residents in the seaside resort and nearby villages described seeing furniture shake and hearing a noise like a train as the town was hit by a tremor measuring 1.5 on the Richter scale

Restoring fracking ban ‘beggars belief’, says Cuadrilla chief

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Cuadrilla boss Francis Egan said the industry can create jobs, generate private sector investment and provide tax revenue.

Tory-led council votes to demand Truss stick to no fracking pledge

Fylde council, home to Preston New Road shale gas site in Lancashire, unanimously backs motion

Astonishment as fracking companies may be placed in charge of testing public support for drilling

Firms like Cuadrilla could be asked to show they have local consent for causing earthquakes – but residents sceptical they would be impartial

‘It sounds like you don’t know’: Liz Truss falters on fracking consent question

Asked what local consent looks like, PM hesitates and says she will make sure there is local consent

Liz Truss can't even say WHERE key UK fracking site is in car crash interview

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$Liz Truss can't even say WHERE key UK fracking site is in car crash interview$

PRIME Minister Liz Truss could not even say where the fracking she has legalised is to take place in a series of car crash interviews…

The National (Scotland)

$Anti-fracking Nanas take to streets in protest again after Government U-turns on ban$

Anti-fracking Nanas take to streets in protest again after Government U-turns on ban

The protesters dressed in yellow overalls and head scarves, blocked roads, held weekly vigils and chained themselves to fences until fracking was banned in 2019 - but now they're back

Is fracking coming to a town near you? Here’s how you can fight them – and win

$Is fracking coming to a town near you? Here’s how you can fight them – and win$

My group, Nanas Against Fracking, is a force to be reckoned with, says campaigner Tina Rothery

Rees-Mogg should make his constituency first to be fracked, says Tory MP

$Rees-Mogg should make his constituency first to be fracked, says Tory MP$

Mark Menzies challenges business secretary to ‘lead by example’ and start drilling in North East Somerset

Ban on gas fracking in England lifted in push for energy independence

$Ban on gas fracking in England lifted in push for energy independence$

Britain on Thursday formally lifted a moratorium on fracking for shale gas in England that has been in place since 2019, saying strengthening the country's energy supply was an "absolute priority".

Reuters

Fracking could affect many protected areas across England as ban is lifted

Guardian analysis finds 151 licences already granted threaten environmentally important spots

Liz Truss, we support fracking too – that’s why we know it can’t work for Britain

$Liz Truss, we support fracking too – that’s why we know it can’t work for Britain$

The economic and political barriers to fracking here are extremely high. There are better solutions to the energy crisis, say Chris Cornelius and Mark Linder

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Fracking won’t work in UK says founder of fracking company Cuadrilla

Chris Cornelius says geology is too challenging and government’s support is merely ‘soundbites’

‘We will oppose this’: Truss fracking plans met with anger and dismay in Lancashire

Preston New Road activists promise to regroup to fight Cuadrilla until fracking in UK is banned for good

Evening Standard

Anti-fracking campaigners ready to ‘pull out all the stops’ again

Protesters previously spent 1,000 days outside the Cuadrilla fracking site in Little Plumpton, near Blackpool.=

Anti-fracking campaigners in Lancashire ready to ‘pull out all the stops’ again

Protesters previously spent 1,000 days outside the Cuadrilla fracking site in Little Plumpton, near Blackpool.

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‘We’ve stopped it once, we’ll stop it again’: Anti-fracking activists gear up for fight after Truss lifts ban

Campaigners spent years opposing tremor-causing drilling - now they’re preparing to do it all over again

Evening Standard

What are the government’s fracking plans? Rishi Sunak reinstates ban

The ban on shale gas fracking in England has been restored by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs.

Downing Street hints fracking ban could be lifted in energy bills package

The suggestion came as advisers warned that the UK’s gas reserves are too small to make a difference to consumer energy bills.

The Conversation

Fracking review suggests UK has softened precautionary principle since leaving EU – here's why it matters

The UK government recently conceded that the reasons for its 2019 ban on hydraulic fracturing “have not gone away,” and there is “no compelling evidence” to support rethinking it. Better known as fracking, this industrial process injects millions of gallons of water underground at high pressure to release fossil gas…

Fracking review ordered as Tories consider 'all energy sources' amid Ukraine war

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng asked the British Geological Survey to reassess the safety of shale gas extraction, which has been banned since 2019

Energy crisis: UK delays closure of shale gas wells in major fracking U-turn

Labour branded the decision 'appalling' and accused the Government of pressuring the regulator to give a reprieve to fracking firm Cuadrilla