
“You can have fracking or you can deal with climate change – you can’t do both” – Friends of the Earth respond to fracking announcement
Fracking will begin for the first time in seven years

Fracking will begin for the first time in seven years

The former Green leader went to Birmingham to protest Conservative support for fracking. And learnt that even in their ranks opinion is shifting.

Friends of the Earth say it will make it “virtually impossible” for councils to stop local fracking schemes.

The Tories are overriding objections to new dirty energy sources. But they will not win.

The push for shale gas is still strong – but campaigners are riding to ‘reclaim the power’.

Activists are gearing up for a fresh wave of protests against fracking. Could it halt the industry for good?

From Blackpool to Yorkshire, protests are showing this can be the year we kill off the idea of fracking in England.

Five years after campaigners kept drilling for gas at bay in the Sussex village of Balcombe, frackers Cuadrilla have been given the green light to come back. We won’t let them.

Campaigners have slammed the decision as a dangerous attack on free speech. Is peaceful protest against frackers being shut down in the UK?

Taking direct action against fracking wasn’t an impulsive decision but a last resort. I had exhausted every option through every democratic channel available to me.