The first drilling equipment has arrived at the controversial gas exploration site at Barton Moss - despite the best efforts of protestors. Company iGas delivered the huge tools on at least seven huge ...

The UK could be dotted with hundreds of naked flames several metres high after the head of Britain's biggest fracking company warned that any production of shale gas would involve “flaring off” ...

UK explorer IGas Energy has been given consent to drill for shale gas in northern England. IGas said on Tuesday that it has been granted permission to develop a hydrocarbon wellsite and drill up to ...

The UK's GMB trade union has called on the government to hold “urgent and meaningful discussion” on the development of fracking in the country after a new shale gas site was given the go-ahead. GMB, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Nottinghamshire County Council gave the green light on Tuesday for shale gas developer IGas to test drill a shale gas site in northeast England in a first sign from the local ...