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Wirral Council votes unanimously to oppose fracking

“Council restates its opposition to all unconventional gas extraction under Wirral, its offshore waters and Dee and Mersey Estuaries”

Liverpool Echo

Wirral Council votes to request bailout to plug budget gap despite Tory opposition

Labour called on the Conservatives "for fairer funding for Wirral before it's too late"

Liverpool Echo

$Local leaders angered by Prime Minister's U-turn on fracking ban$

Local leaders angered by Prime Minister's U-turn on fracking ban

“They decided fracking was dangerous, based on and supported by evidence. Now they’re going for it"

Manchester Evening News

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Tamboran Resources denies using 'intimidation' to access cattle station, fronts fracking senate inquiry

Tamboran Resources has fronted a senate inquiry into fracking in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin, after acquiring Origin Energy's interests in the region last month.

ABC News

Former NT chief minister Michael Gunner to join Andrew Forrest-owned renewable energy company Fortescue Future Industries

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's decision to employ Michael Gunner in a key new role within his renewable energy company has been welcomed by environmentalists, who say Mr Gunner has "seen the light on climate" after previously lifting a moratorium on fracking.

ABC News

Unlike Jacob Rees-Mogg, Britain won’t take fracking lying down

Letter: Caroline Lucas responds to the business secretary’s claim that only she and ‘the socialists’ do not support his plans

The Guardian - UK

'Who voted for this?': Liz Truss's conference speech interrupted by protesters

PRIME Minister Liz Truss's keynote speech to the Tory party conference was interrupted by environmental campaigners protesting her fracking policies.

The National (Scotland)

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$Rees-Mogg’s neighbours fail to share ‘delight’ at back garden fracking$

Rees-Mogg’s neighbours fail to share ‘delight’ at back garden fracking

Few in Somerset MP’s constituency share his enthusiasm but some do agree with need for ‘unpopular measures’

The Guardian - UK

Fracking: the simple test for whether it should happen in the UK

The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, recently announced the reversal of the 2019 ban on fracking. Facing an acute energy crisis, the government want to increase domestic energy production.

The Conversation

$Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows$

Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows

Exclusive: Note setting out business secretary’s views looks for ways to accelerate schemes, including streamlining HSE requirements

The Guardian - UK

The magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells – and more are planned. Is that what Australians really want?

The heart-shaped Lake Eyre Basin covers about one-sixth of Australia. It contains one of the few remaining pristine river systems in the world.

The Conversation

Tory MPs plot to avert benefit squeeze after humiliating U-turns

Kwasi Kwarteng to bring forward fiscal statement to later this month amid disquiet in party over spending cuts hitting poorest

The Guardian - UK

Future gas exploration in Lake Eyre could upset the 'greatest desert river system in the world' forever

The gas industry has been mining Australia's Lake Eyre Basin for decades, but possible future extraction techniques like fracking could devastate its fragile ecosystem.

ABC News

$Rees-Mogg tells Tories he’d welcome fracking in his back garden$

Rees-Mogg tells Tories he’d welcome fracking in his back garden

Speaking at a conference fringe event, business secretary dismisses those who oppose practice as ‘socialists’

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘delighted’ to have fracking in his own back garden

Business secretary says he would welcome cash royalties for allowing drilling on his land

AAP

Qld fracking risks leaving assets stranded

A new report from an anti-fracking group says projects in the Lake Eyre basin are unviable, as evidenced by one energy company recently abandoning its plans.

The Guardian - AU

Fracking in Lake Eyre the ‘height of folly’, report suggests

Economic analysis suggests any proposal to allow fracking in Queensland basin would not be commercially viable

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove warns he could revolt over tax cuts for rich - and benefit cuts for poor

The top Tory demanded a 'course correction, a reset', refused three times to rule out voting against Liz Truss, and warned it will be 'very, very, very difficult' to cut benefits for the poor and tax for the rich

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The Independent UK

Astonishment as fracking companies may be placed in charge of testing public support for drilling

Firms like Cuadrilla could be asked to show they have local consent for causing earthquakes – but residents sceptical they would be impartial

The Guardian - UK

What harnessing geothermal power shares with fracking

The link between the fracking process and earthquakes is also a possibility in extracting geothermal energy

Wales Online

The nine worst blunders Liz Truss made on this morning's tense radio tour

She used one phrase a whopping 61 times

The Guardian - UK

‘It sounds like you don’t know’: Liz Truss falters on fracking consent question

Asked what local consent looks like, PM hesitates and says she will make sure there is local consent

The Independent UK

Liz Truss lost for words during grilling from local radio on economic turmoil

The Prime Minister was questioned about rising mortgages, fracking, and a deteriorating hospital near to her constituency

The Guardian - UK

‘A reverse Robin Hood’: key exchanges from Liz Truss’s radio interviews

Memorable points from prime minister’s morning round of interviews at a glance

Manchester Evening News

"Enough to make your ears bleed": Listeners in disbelief at disastrous, awkward Liz Truss interviews this morning as Britain plunges into economic chaos

Ms Truss spoke publicly for the first time since the mini-budget sparked economic chaos

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