News and analysis from the Guardian on drilling for shale and coal seam gas using the technique known as hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking'
October 2024
Fracking explained: why the fossil fuel extraction process became a US election issue
Harris reiterates she won’t ban fracking if elected as Trump runs ads stating the opposite in tight Pennsylvania race
September 2024
Senior Tories may push for party to become pro-fracking
Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump
July 2024
Kamala Harris will not ban fracking if she wins White House, campaign says
Harris, who had previously urged fracking ban fracking, plans to highlight climate contrast between Democrats and Trump
June 2024
I saw first-hand just how much fracking destroys the earth
Rebecca Solnit
We’ve been making short-term decisions about our planet for a long time. The consequences are horrific to behold
America's dirty divide
Rare cancers, full-body rashes, death: did fracking make their kids sick?
Pennsylvania families worry about rising cases of rare cancer with well pads near homes and stalled House bills
From ‘hug a husky’ to ‘max out the oil’: the Tory environmental journey
We look back through 14 years of Conservative manifestos at policies on net zero, energy, transport and more
April 2024
The Top End carbon bomb
NT government deal to buy Beetaloo Basin gas from US company labelled ‘carbon bomb’
Climate groups criticise nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources, while chief minister says it will provide ‘competitively priced gas’ for the territory
November 2023
Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolution
Final testing being done in project to give North Yorkshire site new life as source of geothermal energy
October 2023
Emissions of Beetaloo Basin gas projects ‘significantly underestimated’ by government, analysis finds
Climate Analytics says onshore emissions of proposed fracking understated by up to 84% in ‘a rosy picture that simply doesn’t reflect reality’
Gasland director Josh Fox on fighting long Covid: ‘The frontlines were inside my head’
The activist and film-maker discusses his latest documentary, The Edge of Nature, which charts his months spent living in a forest, wrestling with the virus’s neurological symptoms
Methane bubbles in groundwater cast doubts over Beetaloo basin fracking approval, scientists say
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Vaca Muerta was the future’: Argentina goes all in on fracking
Delayed environment laws spark calls for urgent government action on water and fracking
September 2023
‘Water is life’: Indigenous musicians take Beetaloo basin anti-fracking message to Canberra
Stuart Nuggett and Ray Dimakarri Dixon perform for MPs and call for government’s water trigger to be expanded this year
Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
Farris and Dan Wilks’ deep pockets fund climate denialism education, conservative politicians and pro-fossil fuel projects
Fracking projects in NT risk exposing people to cancer and birth defects, report finds
Recent studies from the US have seen evidence for health harms from oil and gas projects grow ‘substantially stronger’, experts say
August 2023
Woodside faces Indigenous legal challenge to seismic blasting at WA gas site
Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
Pocock claims Labor adopting Coalition’s ‘gas-led recovery’ – as it happened
July 2023
US supreme court allows construction of Appalachian pipeline to resume
Work on Mountain Valley Pipeline, which will transport fracked gas 300 miles through West Virginia and Virginia, had been halted
