Two sides in a planning dispute over gas drilling and lower volume fracking near Scarborough have accused each other of ...

A North Yorkshire councillor is asking the government to call in the decision on the application for gas drilling and lower ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to retain a moratorium on fracking for gas and cut incentives for wind power in areas where it ...

The government says it plans to pass legislation to permanently ban fracking for shale gas in England. A moratorium on the practice was put in place by the last government but the debate has been ...

BERLIN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Germany's government plans to stop short of an outright ban on the controversial technique of fracking for gas, bowing to pressure from industry, according to the latest ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

Ed Miliband has vowed to permanently ban fracking, warning that the drilling was “dangerous and deeply harmful to our natural environment”. On stage at the Labour party conference, Mr Miliband ...

Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, ...