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Scuffles and accusations of aggression increase at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas exploration site

Catholic order builds chapel in middle of cornfield in attempt to use religious freedom protections to block Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

Move represents a tiny proportion of world production, but could embolden others to rethink their commitment to cuts

Italian company plans to drill four exploration wells in the Arctic, which some say will endanger polar bears, bowhead whales and other marine mammals

IEA says growth in production, as fracking opens up shale oil and gas deposits, will see US rival Russia and Norway

Energy company warns rising cost of installations due to ‘customer apathy’ could prompt suppliers to increase tariffs

Anglo-Swiss chemicals firm hails acquisition as ‘very logical’ as Danish firm makes progress in switch to renewables

Anglo-Swiss chemicals firm hails £1bn acquisition as ‘very logical’ as Danish firm makes progress in switch to renewables

The World Bank reckons the 16,000 flares worldwide produce around 350m tonnes of CO2 each year, causing untold harm

Predicted shortfall no longer on horizon – and opening up new coal seam gas fields will not bring down prices, researchers say

Campaigners claim strategy appears ‘misaligned’ with climate change threat but another successful revolt deemed unlikely

ShareAction campaigners claim strategy appears ‘misaligned’ with climate change threat but another successful revolt deemed unlikely

The prospect of departure from the EU has thrown several key power projects – from emissions trading and undersea cables to nuclear research – into questionThe Brexit spotlight swung last week away from the familiar cast...

When a drilling platform is scheduled for destruction, it must go on a thousand-mile final journey to the breaker’s yard. As one rig proved when it crashed on to the rocks of a remote Scottish island, this is always a risky...

The oil cartel is maintaining price discipline for now. But a concatenation of global circumstances could destroy its power to control the marketWhen the major oil-producing countries meet in a month’s time at a Vienna...