Cubico project at Scout Moor near Greater Manchester could power the equivalent of 100,000 homes
Exclusive: project will store renewable energy and reduce climate-heating emissions
Barclays and HSBC targeted on final day of protests against fossil fuel investments
Readers respond to news of scrapped rail electrification plans and the folly of HS2The transport secretary’s announcement (Fury as soaring cost halts electrification, 21 July) is disastrous for the UK – on economic,...
Campaigners at Barton Moss in Salford tell researchers they were groped and threatened by Greater Manchester officers
Other energy giants seem likely to follow in footsteps of Total, the first big oil company to invest in Britain's shale sectorHundreds of protesters were making their presence felt again at a fracking site in Barton Moss,...
Mince pies and Christmas lunch as residents join protesters in Barton Moss to fight against 'environmental disaster'As the wind felled trees, flooded homes and cancelled ferries this week, much of the nation needed little...
Scuffles break out at IGas Barton Moss site as application is made for new well in South Downs national park Anti-fracking protesters clashed with police on Friday in demonstrations against shale gas drilling in Greater Manchester...
Three men and a woman held by police among several dozen anti-fracking protesters attempting to stop delivery of drillFour anti-fracking protesters have been arrested as they tried to stop a lorry delivering machinery to...
Canadian and Chinese-owned firm also considers Surrey and Sussex locations, but discounts use of fracking at this stageIGas, partly owned by a Chinese state company, is planning to drill two wells between Manchester and Liverpool...
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