Fracking firm Cuadrilla yesterday announced the award of an interim High Court injunction preventing trespass on its Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas exploration site and surrounding farmland.
Seven out of eight of the Netherland's largest insurance companies snubbed Shell's climate ambition by abstaining or voting with a fringe group's resolution.
In a new public relations campaign, environmentalists are calling on insurance companies including AIG, Liberty Mutual and Chubb to stop offering coverage to pipeline projects connecting to Western Canada's tar sands fields, which are among the most carbon intensive oil deposits in the world.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel.
Activist group Greenpeace has gate-crashed Total’s annual general meeting in Paris. Members were protesting the French energy giant’s plan to drill in the Amazon basin and French Guyana. It is reported that the event has been temporarily suspended. Police have been called to remove the protesters.
A £31 million investment in a north-east manufacturing base will deliver a massive boost to the region’s subsea sector, an industry chief said yesterday.