Gas
-
Government accused of 'dirty tricks' over controversial fracking reportMinisters deliberately delayed a report showing fracking could affect house prices, health and the environment until after a crucial planning decision, documents reveal
-
Josh Frydenberg welcomes Trump's vow to lift restrictions on fossil fuel exploration‘We need more gas,’ Australia’s environment and energy minister says, urging state governments to follow US lead
-
Australia must catch up with other countries on how it taxes gasAustralia should follow PNG’s lead in resource tax reform. As the budget deficit worsens, reintroducing royalties for LNG projects would provide much-needed revenue
-
Obama puts Arctic Ocean off limits for drilling in last-ditch barrier to TrumpUS Department of the Interior says ‘fragile and unique’ Arctic ecosystem at risk if drilling allowed, possibly by pro-fossil fuels Trump administration
-
Fears for isolated Bolivian tribe met by Chinese oil firm in AmazonDavid Hill: Company operating near the border with Peru has reportedly had near encounters with indigenous people living in “isolation”
-
UK public support for fracking falls to lowest levelJust 17% of people surveyed back the process, the lowest level since the government survey started tracking public attitudes about shale gas
-
There are oilfields in the South Downs tooLetters: Oil is being extracted from several small fields, including one in the middle of the national park
-
In their clamour for shale gas, ministers forgot the climate agreementLetters: Given the rapid phase-out of the UK’s existing coal power stations, shale gas will not be produced at sufficient scale and in the necessary timeframe for it to be a substitute for coal
-
James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’Fracking is great, the green movement is a religion, his dire predictions about climate change were nonsense – and robots don’t mind the heat, so what does it matter anyway? At 97, the creator of Gaia theory is as mischievous and subversive as ever
-
Commonwealth Bank: coal seam gas makes property 'unacceptable' as loan securityBank turns down owners’ application for $500,000 bridging loan on grounds that Queensland property has four coal seam gas wells on it
-
The rise and fall of fracking in EuropeAfter years of early hype, shale gas companies appear to have lost hope of an energy revolution in most countries in Europe
-
Environmentalists 'expected better' of Trudeau as Canada backs gas projectThe Pacific NorthWest LNG project would ship 19m tons a year of frozen, liquefied natural gas to markets in Asia – and create jobs, says the government
Barack Obama bans oil and gas drilling in most of Arctic and Atlantic oceans