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Despite the stakes, there was almost a festival spirit in this wealthy little village nestled in the hills of West Sussex. Children buzzed around an open-sided tent by the street and families spread blankets on the tiny village green. What brought them together on Thursday evening, though, was not...
Leaders of the European Union gently urged action to standardize energy policy across the grouping, at the end of a summit on Thursday. European Council president Herman van Rompuy, standing beside Commission president Manuel Barroso, told gathered representatives that the Union should step up efforts...
A shale gas company which is to carry out exploratory drilling near a village in Sussex is holding a drop-in session. Cuadrilla plans to drill a 3,000ft (914m) vertical well and a 2,500ft (762m) horizontal bore to the south of Balcombe, near Haywards Heath, in June. The tests will see if oil or gas...
Competent, skilled professionals are key to supporting the development of the British shale gas industry. This was the message delivered by ten panelists who spoke Wednesday at the conference "Shale Gas - Lancashire's next industrial revolution?" organized by the employer group Institute...
There's nothing standing in the way of new drilling plans for shale gas resources in the country, British Energy Minister Michael Fallon said. The British government last year lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of shale natural gas resources in light of new risk controls. Fracking...
Protesters are taking part in a weekend vigil against fracking in Lancashire. Environmental campaigners, have set up camp in Mere Brow near Tarleton. Camp Frack has been devised by organisers to highlight what they believe are the dangers of fracking. During the weekend they will be promoting alternatives...
Lancashire could be the headquarters for the next generation of Europe’s oil and gas industry, according to one of the Government’s most senior business advisers. Former head of BP Lord Browne, now chairman of Cuadrilla Resources, the company behind ‘fracking’ in the county...
Plans by British shale gas pioneer Cuadrilla Resources to drill for oil in leafy West Sussex have already caused bitter opposition to be voiced. Local paper the West Sussex County Times says "a vociferous campaign" by opponents of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is already under way. Cuadrilla posted...
Cuadrilla Resources has announced plans to drill an exploration well at its Balcombe site in the summer and anticipates work will take no more than three months, with equipment cleared no later than September. The company intends to commence discussions with local residents to explain exactly...
The head of a major UK energy company, IGas, has predicted that indigenous shale gas extracted by hydraulic fracturing will be a feature of the British energy scene within three years. Andrew Austin, chief executive of IGas, said commercial production of shale gas from his company's UK locations...
