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Minor quake near Cuadrilla site is on par with one in 2011 that led to moratorium

Premier Mark McGowan defies protesters, farmers and MPs to allow controversial drilling, which he says will create jobs

Cuadrilla won’t say if it has halted Preston New Road exploration, at cost of £94,000 a day

Jack Harries was at protest by Extinction Rebellion aiming to bring London to a standstill

By Andy May Popular accounts of shale oil and gas reservoirs are often riddled with errors and, even when technically correct, often misleading. As a shale petrophysicist, retired from Devon Energy, I thought I would try...

Ambitious scheme also aims to fully decarbonise country’s economy shortly after

Activists block doors of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Drilling at Preston New Road site in Lancashire has triggered 37 minor quakes in three weeks

Opponents say revised definition of fracking will allow energy firms to bypass planning rules

Lee Rowley says many colleagues have concerns as opposition builds to loosening of planning rules

Protests and court cases have failed but the government’s rules on tremors could wreck shale gas economics

1.1-magnitude tremor second to have breached regulatory threshold in recent days

Conservative MP says drilling and pollution are ‘alarming prospect’ for communities

Tremor at Cuadrilla site in Little Plumpton is 18th since fracking restarted 12 days ago

Claire Perry failed to record meeting with Cuadrilla and others on transparency register