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Beetaloo gas fracking could start soon, despite NT government delay in implementing Pepper inquiry recommendations

The oil and gas industry's peak body says Beetaloo fracking licences could be issued in a month, as critics say the government's promise to implement a key inquiry is "impossible".

ABC News

In Pennsylvania, Hopes Rise But Questions Remain About New Governor’s Environmental Agenda

Josh Shapiro has revealed little about his policy proposals.

Capital & Main

What the end of the US shale revolution would mean for the world

Fracking catapulted America to the top of the energy hierarchy, but low yields and a lack of reinvestment threaten that position

Financial Times

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Vivienne Westwood's most punk moments - including knickerless flash at Buckingham Palace

Dame Vivienne Westwood gave birth to the punk movement and continued challenging the status quo throughout her five decade career

Daily Mirror

To ease looming West Texas water shortage, oil companies have begun recycling fracking wastewater

Oil and gas companies are increasingly reusing “produced water” as West Texas aquifers are being depleted and the practice of injecting wastewater into disposal wells triggers more earthquakes.

The Texas Tribune

Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Order was quietly signed on the same day that residents celebrated the energy company’s plea deal on charges of environmental crimes.

Capital & Main

Call for federal action over NT water plan

Hydrologists and environmentalists want the federal government to intervene over a massive NT government groundwater extraction plan linked to gas fracking.

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NT chief minister says states, Commonwealth must help offset emissions to obtain Beetaloo Basin gas

Natasha Fyles says the federal government and states with gas shortages must work with the Northern Territory if new supplies from the Beetaloo Basin are to be unlocked and all carbon emissions offset as promised.

ABC News

Inside the 14-Year Battle to Secure a Water Line for Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

Long-suffering residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, feel cautiously hopeful after Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro announces plea deal with natural gas company.

Capital & Main

$Aboriginal land councils condemn Northern Territory government’s proposed fracking rules$

Aboriginal land councils condemn Northern Territory government’s proposed fracking rules

A powerful Aboriginal land council has accused the NT government of treating traditional owners with contempt over its plans to legislate changes that allow companies to sell gas fracked during the "appraisal phase".

ABC News

$‘I don’t try and fit in’: energy boss Dale Vince on fracking, Farage and going green$

‘I don’t try and fit in’: energy boss Dale Vince on fracking, Farage and going green

Dale Vince is not your run-of-the-mill power company chief. Here, the founder of Ecotricity talks about green energy, warring with Elon Musk – and his vegan football team

The Guardian - UK

Texas oil and gas agency investigating 5.4 magnitude earthquake in West Texas, the largest in three decades

The quake was the third largest in Texas history, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An increase in seismic activity in Texas has been linked to injecting fracking wastewater underground.

The Texas Tribune

Organic property in Queensland outback, Plevna Downs, coexists with gas exploration

One of outback Queensland's first organic properties is also home to gas exploration and fracking.

ABC News

Watch: Boris Johnson promises support for Sunak but warns against backsliding on net zero

Boris Johnson warned Tories against going soft on climate change targets as he suggested that rising temperatures in Westminster may have contributed to his ousting. The former prime minister dismissed the “nonsense” of calls to resume fracking and return to fossil fuels in response to the soaring energy prices triggered…

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The Guardian - UK

Labour Facebook ads attack red wall Tory MPs in drive to swing voters

New social media drive targets Conservatives’ failure to ban fracking, rising mortgage costs, and direct action taken by Just Stop Oil protesters

Belfast Live

Antrim and Newtownabbey 'betrayed' by MP Paul Girvan's fracking vote says councillor

The council has now voted against oil and gas exploration, extraction or fracking

The Guardian - UK

‘No evidence MPs were bullied,’ says report into fracking vote chaos

Review acknowledges shouting and ‘intemperate language’ but says chaotic scenes due to confusion over nature of vote

The National (Scotland)

Commons inquiry finds 'no evidence of bullying' on night of chaotic fracking vote

AN inquiry into the behaviour of members of the Conservative Party on the night of a key vote on fracking has found there was “no evidence of…

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Public order bill: new law is designed to stop climate protests – but it could actually give activists a legal tool

The UK’s environmental movement has a long history of using protest as a strategy. Disruption is often at the heart of this, either disrupting infrastructure projects themselves in an attempt to stop them going ahead (roads, fracking sites), or targeting existing infrastructure (fuel depots, airport runways or bridges) to disrupt…

Belfast Live

DUP has 'no official position' on fracking says Edwin Poots after DUP MPs voted against UK ban

Jim Shannon and Paul Girvan sided with the Conservatives to vote again a Labour motion to ban fracking

Evening Standard

Therese Coffey denies ‘manhandling’ during controversial fracking vote

Chaos erupted in the Commons last week as the Government U-turned on a threat to strip the whip from Conservative MPs if they backed a fracking ban

The Independent UK

Restoring fracking ban ‘beggars belief’, says Cuadrilla chief

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

The Independent UK

Coffey denies manhandling Tory MPs to force opposition to Labour vote

The Cabinet minister is among a group of senior Tories accused of pressuring colleagues to oppose the motion on fracking.

Daily Mirror

7 policies from Liz Truss's 49-day regime that Rishi Sunak binned in 48 hours

Liz Truss left office with a plea for her successor to carry on her work. It's fair to say Rishi Sunak is not doing that. From fracking and pensions to defence spending, here are some of the ideas he's ripping to shreds

The Independent UK

UK government fracking U-turn ‘sets a good tone’, say climate activists

Reversal comes as MPs warn national security is being jeopardised by climate-fuelled extreme weather

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