Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Conservative peer Zac Goldsmith has been sacked as environment minister and will no longer attend Cabinet, prompting fears of a watering down of environmental and animal welfare standards by the new government. Goldsmith's team did not respond to a request for comment at the time of going to press.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

But what nobody really knows is at the other end of a building known as Le V, on the northeast side of the city, is a portal that leads to a secret pile of fracking waste from the woods of West Virginia. More Radioactivity Than at Chernobyl Just the other month I visited an abandoned fracking waste treatment plant on a large U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

They suspected these symptoms were the result of air pollution from fracking facilities that dominate the area and the subsequent investigation offers a powerful example of what can be achieved by citizen scientists. If there wasn’t fracking in this area, there would be no reason for bad air pollution. It’s not an urban area.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. Green Alliance executive director Shaun Spiers echoed Benwell's concerns, arguing that the Bill was "seriously bad news for anyone who cares about nature or wants a high-standards UK".

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 24, 2023

Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal. Fracking was banned in the UK in 2019 over concerns that it causes earth tremors.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On a January day in 2021, a fountain of fracking wastewater unexpectedly erupted from deep underground in Noble County, Ohio. This incident represents the growing problem with fracking waste injection wells in Ohio, a state that has become a dumping ground for oil and gas industry waste. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Proposals to block solar farms, revive fracking, and roll back planning rules are further fuelling the impression the government really is engaged in an 'attack on nature'. It is a myth that we can't grow the economy and the environment together," he said. A strong environment and a strong economy go hand in hand. Far from it.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The scale of the electoral gamble the government is undertaking by reviving plans for fracking in the UK and weighing plans to roll back environmental protections was again underlined today by a major new Opinium poll. Oh, and even better, the environment wins because it's lower carbon emissions. But you will also get paid for it.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

New PM signals return to commitments in 2019 Conservative manifesto including on fracking, green farming subsidy reform, and nature protection, but remains tight-lipped on onshore wind. We will deliver on what we said at COP because we care deeply about passing our children an environment in a better state than we found it ourselves.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

with some calling the situation a “complete sell-off” that could jeopardize the health of the community and environment. Compressor stations, which pump large volumes of fracked gas at high pressure and are critical parts of gas pipeline infrastructure, are prone to hazards due to the extreme pressure by which the gas is processed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Liz Truss's new administration will today announce its much-anticipated new £150bn energy security package, confirming plans to freeze energy prices, lift the moratorium on fracking in the UK, and approve a wave of new North Sea oil and gas drilling licenses.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Argentina’s risky gamble on fracking has led to massive environmental and public health costs , and despite years of government support , the industry remains on shaky financial ground. For much of the past two decades, the fracking bonanza has been mostly a U.S. and Canadian phenomenon. Drilling rig in the Vaca Muerta.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Green campaigners have expressed concern about the GMB union’s newly elected leader, who has called for Glasgow to ditch the upcoming COP26 climate summit and enthusiastically backed fracking. Smith has been a long-time backer of fracking and fiercely criticised Labour for its support for a nationwide fracking ban, saying “Britain needs gas”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

YouGov poll indicates the environment is now the third top issue among voters behind health and Brexit. Public concern for the environment appears to still be on the rise, with the latest polling indicating green issues are currently more important than the economy to voters.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On Wednesday, protesters disrupted Truss’ speech at her first Conservative party conference, accusing her of “U-turns” on fracking and environmental protections. This latest revelation follows on from DeSmog’s discovery in September that Truss’ campaign had received funds from pro-fracking interests and the climate denier Lance Forman.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 18, 2023

Yet fracking sites where B.C.’s Meanwhile, fracking produces enormous volumes of wastewater containing toxic chemicals like arsenic and lead. “The You can’t greenwash the fracking impacts of LNG.” Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation. And the industry’s freshwater needs could be on pace to reach 10.4

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Why do we always have to justify our position to live in a clean, healthy, and safe environment?” In Pennsylvania, however, output from the state’s fracking fields declined for the first time in more than a decade — a trend the U.S. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S.

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Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

During the summer Leadership contest, like his opponent Liz Truss, he pledged to meet the country’s Net Zero target, but didn’t say much more until the Conservative Environment Network asked both candidates to expand on their thoughts. Lucas grinned and applauded silently.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The unexpected bounty of nature seems apparent from the discovery that a harmless food-grade solvent can be used to extract highly sought rare-earth metals from coal ash, reducing the amount of ash without damaging the environment and replenishing supplies of an important resource.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Quite apart from its seemingly frosty reception with global investors, the government’s Growth Plan 2022 policy statement also elicited bafflement from environmental commentators, many of whom seemed dismayed by its apparent “dash for gas”, and volte face on protecting the environment. Bonfire of the protections?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fashion industry has 'failed to make headway' in curbing its damage on the environment and dependence on fossil fuels, campaigners warn. A significant proportion of fossil fibre production is derived from the controversial practice of fracking, it notes, and there are projects in the pipeline to produce polyester from coal in China.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

It can be a blend of water companies blast into oil wells during fracking and water that’s been trapped underground alongside oil and gas for millennia. Drilling and fracking also require vast amounts of water, and drillers often use some of the industry’s water for more fracking, a process they call “water recycling.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 12, 2024

The bill has prompted Conservative MP and former environment minister Chris Skidmore to resign and has been criticised by the government’s climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee, which called the plans for new drilling licences “inconsistent with climate goals”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2014 was also the year of peak frack - the year that Westminster went mad for fracking and all it could bring to the UK energy system. It was the year that fracking was afforded the greatest amount of attention and airtime in Parliament. A UK policy environment to enable it was not. And yet not so unfamiliar.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. ISDS mechanisms are also affecting fundamental human rights.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The new website also hosts GWPF’s seven demands , published last month, which include calls to scrap a range of net zero emissions policies, and the removal of “fiscal and other disincentives to oil and gas exploration”, including fracking, to boost domestic production.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Energy Minister reiterates 'net zero is part of the solution, not part of the problem', despite calls to revive UK fracking projects. A group of 29 Tory MPs reportedly backed a letter to the Sunday Telegraph yesterday , urging the government to reverse the moratorium on fracking projects in the UK.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Fracking vote triggers resignation, with new Prime Minister expected to be elected by the end of next week. Prime Minister Liz Truss has this afternoon resigned after just 44 days in office, following Number 10's chaotic handling of yesterday's Commons vote on the government's controversial plans to lift the moratorium on fracking in the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

How are you going to convince anyone to welcome new fracking projects, and how will you marry increased oil and gas production with net zero goals? According to reports, one of the first announcements from the new government will be the axing of the ban on new fracking projects in the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We cannot strengthen the UK's energy security by securing our supply of fossil fuels alone; the North Sea doesn't have sufficient reserves, and fracking is unproven and deeply unpopular. In comparison, fracking splits Conservative voters with 44 per cent in favour, and 40 per cent opposed.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As environment secretary between 2014 and 2016, Truss cut subsidies for solar farms, calling them “a blight on the landscape”, and claimed without evidence that they were harming food production. Rees-Mogg was also the first cabinet minister to endorse the NZSG campaign to reverse the UK’s ban on fracking.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2022

Using the COP process and international collaboration we should aim for a market, science and technology driven approach which can protect the environment and enhance productivity.". It has been in our DNA to conserve, to protect, and to leave our environment in a better place for future generations.".

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2019

Through their products and commitment to improving the environment, ClimeMET is showing other small businesses that success and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. ClimeMET is committed to protecting the environment and keeping our planet beautiful. Passion for the Outdoors. Working Hard to Create a Greener Business and Community.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 2, 2024

Environmental Impact of Fracking Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a controversial method of extracting oil and gas that has raised concerns over its environmental sustainability. The fracking fluid contains a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals, some of which are toxic. Another pressing issue is methane leakage.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In January, YPF chief executive Pablo Gonzalez told S&P Global Platts that there is “enormous potential” offshore and that the oil and gas reserves “could equal those in Vaca Muerta,” the shale formation in Argentina’s arid interior that is home to a state-subsidized fracking boom. Gonzalez pointed to Brazil as a model.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The new Prime Minister did highlight the government's intention to accelerate renewables and nuclear development, but provided no details on how it intended to deliver more clean energy capacity and made scant reference to the need to curb energy demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is how we will protect the great British environment, deliver on our commitment to net zero and tackle climate change". However, despite announcing controversial plans to lift the ban on fracking in England last month, the issue was conspicuous by its absence from Truss's speech this morning.

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