The Scottish Government has imposed what amounts to a total ban on fracking, a decision that puts it at odds both with UK energy policy and the owners of Scotland’s biggest industrial complex.
The Local Government Association has criticised Sajid Javid’s decision to overrule a local planning decision to give the go ahead to a horizontal fracking scheme in Lancashire.
Prime minister Theresa May has set out possible changes to how local shale wealth funds created from shale gas exploration will operate, with distribution of money to local residents now considered...
Ministers could take the power to decide on fracking applications away from local authorities that do not make decisions on developments within 16 weeks, it has been announced.
