Shale gas and fracking

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• Former Environment Agency head to lead industry-funded fracking task force

  21 Oct 2014: Lord Chris Smith will lead a new ‘independent’ task force, funded by shale gas companies, to look into the risks and benefits of fracking in the UK
  

• 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

• Owen Paterson: fracking would be boon for poorest parts of the UK

  16 Oct 2014: Former environment secretary’s comments ‘a reminder of just how out of touch the Tories are’, says Labour

• How breast cancer research benefits from fracking and other abominations

  16 Oct 2014: Baker Hughes, a maker of fracking drill bits, has produced them in bright pink to support breast cancer research. Here’s how to tell if your company is a philanthropic hypocrite
  

• Fracking boom will not tackle global warming, analysis warns

  15 Oct 2014: Nature paper shows abundant gas would squeeze out renewable energy and likely increase overall carbon emissions

• Fracking firm lodging appeal after council rejects its planning application

  15 Oct 2014: West Sussex county council refused application by Celtique Energie for oil and gas exploration near South Downs national park

• Victorian election: Greens aim to capitalise on coal seam gas doubts

  15 Oct 2014: Victorian Liberals launch mining licence locator, but anti-fracking activists say both major parties are avoiding the real issue

• Ed Davey, secretary of state for energy and climate change – live chat

  14 Oct 2014: This is your chance to ask the energy secretary anything. Join Ed Davey MP live online from 10.30-11.30am BST on Wednesday 22 October

• UK to allow fracking companies to use 'any substance' under homes

  14 Oct 2014: Proposed amendment in infrastructure bill would make mockery of world class shale gas regulation claims, campaigners say

• Owen Paterson proposal to scrap Climate Change Act is 'bonkers'

  13 Oct 2014: Former environment secretary does not understand the risks climate change poses, says Lord Stern

• Satellite data shows surprising methane hotspot in US southwest

  10 Oct 2014: Leakage of powerful greenhouse gas over New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah is likely to be from coal mines

• Nick Clegg taunts David Cameron on 'green crap'

  8 Oct 2014: Damian Carrington: ‘It’s not green crap to us,’ says Liberal Democrat leader, referring to comments made by Tory leader about levies on energy bills

• Naomi Klein: UK fracking trespass law flouts democratic rights

  7 Oct 2014: Recent changes to the law, enabling companies to frack beneath landowners’ properties without their permission, have fuelled resistance to fracking in Britain, says author and activist
  

• Coal seam gas report: NSW chief scientist calls for independent regulator

  1 Oct 2014: Professor Mary O’Kane’s review of state’s CSG industry makes 16 recommendations, including a compensation scheme and expert advisory body

• US environmental groups may sue to block building of LNG export terminal

  30 Sep 2014: Cove Point, which won federal approval on Monday, now slated to become first gas export facility on US east coast

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