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The new Hollywood film about fracking, which stars Matt Damon, entitled “Promised Land” could tap into the growing grassroots rebellion against the technique which is slowly sweeping across America.

Yesterday Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page advert in the New York Times, calling on the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo to “Imagine There’s No Fracking… and give clean energy a chance.”

To facilitate Britain's “Dash for Gas”, the Chancellor George Osborne is expected to give the green light to widespread fracking across the UK and will consult on giving lucrative tax breaks to the fracking industry.

New research by British scientists has claimed that the US shale gas boom is not curbing greenhouse gas emissions as much as its proponents claim.

The US could soon replace Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer, just as the Saudis promise to go green

The largest health survey to-date of residents living near fracking sites shows a clear pattern of negative health impacts associated with the technology.

The Financial Times has just revealed that the oil trading arms of BP, Shell and Vitol have applied for licenses to export U.S. crude to Canada.

Slowly but surely the last remnants of any green veneer of the British conservative government is peeled away as the government lurches to the right.

So great is the fracking boom in the US that it has created a “world of infinite gas” according to Tony Hayward, the disgraced ex-boss of BP.