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• Low oil price means high anxiety for Opec as US flexes its muscles

  19 Oct 2014: Terry Macalister: Motorists, airlines and industry are enjoying low energy costs, the US is relishing its reduced reliance on the Middle East – and Opec is wondering how to reassert its authority

• Why Middle East conflict is a bigger threat to UK energy security than Putin

  5 Sep 2014: Energy economics expert Laura El-Katiri finds world oil markets have responded with surprising resilience in the face of uncertainty. But are prices set to rocket?

• Ineos buys fracking rights around Grangemouth and Firth of Forth

  18 Aug 2014:

  News of Ineos's move into shale gas extraction comes amid nationwide protests against companies involved in fracking

• UK energy dependence – five hidden costs expose truth about fracking

  18 Aug 2014: The shale boom is a bubble waiting to burst as the economics of extraction falter and the trickle of bad environmental news turns into a flood

• Fracking's impact on wildlife remains unknown, study finds

  13 Aug 2014: Lack of data on pollution and habitat loss makes it hard to gauge wider effect of shale gas development in North America

• Ineos gets £230m UK loan guarantee to build shale gas facility at Grangemouth

  17 Jul 2014:

  Company says pledge allows it to invest in terminal to import, store and process ethane from US shale gas

• The inevitable demise of the fossil fuel empire

  10 Jun 2014:

  Nafeez Ahmed: Rocketing production costs, proliferating write-downs, stranded assets pave the way for renewable renaissance

• US shale boom is over, energy revolution needed to avert blackouts

  6 Jun 2014:

  Nafeez Ahmed: Global energy watchdog confirms 'the party's over' - lowers US production projections, demands urgent investment

• Lessons from the US: the benefits of fracking for local government

  Guardian Professional, 4 Jun 2014:

  The Queen's speech will include plans to encourage fracking. What could this mean for UK councils?
  • To frack or not? That is the question for councils

• Where is the signboard to warn of a climate catastrophe?

  2 Jun 2014: Andrew Simms: Clear signage warns us against known dangers, and yet there isn't one on fossil fuels wrecking civilisation
  

• Cuadrilla applies for fracking permission in Lancashire

  29 May 2014: Company wants to drill four new exploratory wells at Preston New Road site to extract gas from shale rock

• Fracking in Tunbridge Wells: 'Where is it going to stop?'

  23 May 2014: Residents in the Kent Weald react with mixture of fear and enthusiasm to shale oil reserves and plans to change the law to allowing fracking below homes without owners' permission

• No shale gas potential in Weald basin, concludes British Geological Survey

  23 May 2014: Ministers deny hyping UK potential after BGS says only a fraction of Weald oil reserves is recoverable

• Fracking: shock and awe will not win the battle of Britain

  23 May 2014: Damian Carrington: Removing the ability of people to block shale exploration under their property, while making further extravagant claims about its potential is not the way to found a UK shale gas and oil industry
  

• Write-down of two-thirds of US shale oil explodes fracking myth

  22 May 2014:

  Industry's over-inflated reserve estimates are unravelling, and with it the 'American dream' of oil independence

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