Fracking
UK Chancellor announces tax breaks for fracking
Friday’s top 5: Fracking given go-ahead with tax breaks, Obama calls on agencies to double renewable energy, and UN report highlights climate spending in Africa
Lord Browne: Fracking will not bring down energy bills
Friday’s top 5: Lord Browne says fracking will not decrease energy bills, China to raise coal threshold, Oil drilling in Pechora Sea to begin in 2014, Australian bushfires linked to Indian Ocean temperature increase, Big six told to hold price increase
Beijing’s carbon trading scheme goes online
Thursday’s top five: Beijing launches carbon trading scheme, Poland starts fracking, Jordan builds first major wind farm
US emissions fall to lowest level since 1994
Energy Information Agency report 3.8% drop in 2012, linked to rise in shale gas use and warmer than usual first quarter
Greenpeace launches legal challenge to UK fracking
NGO takes on government plans to encourage fracking through courts, labelling technique “reckless and presumptuous”
Bloomberg: fracking unlikely to bring down UK energy bills
Bloomberg New Energy Finance submission to UK Parliament suggests shale gas could cost 50% to 100% more in UK than USA
India accuses EU of hindering global aviation deal
Morning summary: India says EU ETS is obstacle to aviation deal; APEC agree renewable energy programme; and UK anti-fracking protesters vacate Balcombe site
Methane capture equipment can cut fracking emissions by 99%
Methane capture equipment can ensure fugitive emissions from wells are dramatically reduced says study
California passes tough new fracking laws
Morning summary: controversial bill would give California the nation’s toughest regulation on shale gas exploration
Fracking to boost US economy $2000 per household – report
Report by IHS reveals economic benefits of shale gas use but fails to account for any climate risks writes Paul Brown
Fracking will increase CO2 emissions without global climate deal
UK government report warns the use of shale gas will not bring emission levels down without tighter regulation and low carbon ambition
Comment: UK fracking fight highlights need for carbon pricing strategy
Polarised shale gas exploration debate makes an effective EU energy market strategy essential argues Simon Moore from UK think tank Policy Exchange
Polls indicate UK public support for solar and climate action
Polls by Solar Trade Association and Carbon Brief indicate UK public broadly supportive of investment in renewable energy
Green ‘biogas’ has potential to quash UK fracking debate
Supporters say biogas could supply 10% of UK demand, and cut 7.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year
Fracking linked to ‘over 100’ earthquakes in Ohio
Morning summary: Ohio quakes triggered by the disposal of wastewater from fracking operations in the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania
Thousands march through West Sussex in anti-fracking protest
Morning summary: On Sunday, thousands marched through Balcombe in the biggest demonstration yet against Cuadrilla’s exploratory drilling in the area
RSPB warns fracking will blow UK climate targets
The arguments for and against fracking seem clear-cut, but there is mounting evidence that exploiting shale gas may be neither necessary nor sensible
Cuadrilla “unlikely” to produce oil at Balcombe fracking site
UK shale gas firm say they are “unlikely” to go into production at site, as other areas have better transport and infrastructure links
Cameron’s fracking pledge dismissed by Northern Irish minister
Environment Minister Mark Durkan says Prime Minister’s shale gas stance is encouraging “reckless and irresponsible” behaviour
Cameron’s fracking push ignores UK’s binding climate targets
Prime Minister’s support for fracking does not explain how it can be reconciled with UK decarbonisation targets