A guide to the companies, lobbyists and think tanks behind the push for fracking in the UK
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Articles on Spinwatch
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- Meet the Frackers’: a Spinwatch lobbying tour, Spinwatch January 2017
- East Midlands parish councils reject Ineos’ assault on community spaces, Spinwatch, February 2017
- New documents reveal North Yorkshire Police's close relationship with fracking firms, Spinwatch, June 2017
- Andy Rowell, Devoid of democratic legitimacy, UK shale industry responds with spin and violence, Spinwatch July 2017
- Andy Rowell, SLAPPS and ‘aggressive cold calling’: How INEOS is selling shale, Spinwatch August 2017
- Melissa Jones, Fracking parliamentary groups hang up their hard hats, Spinwatch. 5 October 2017
- Melissa Jones, Time to fix the revolving door rules for special advisers, 17 October 2017
- Melissa Jones, Russell Scott, Third environmental permit breach this year by Cuadrilla at Lancs fracking site, Spinwatch, 21 October 2017
- Melissa Jones, Russell Scott, Update: Cuadrilla environmental breaches tally rises to five this year at Preston New Road, Spinwatch, 3 November 2017
- Andy Rowell, Exclusive: Fight against INEOS' ‘draconian’ injunction goes to the Court of Appeal, Spinwatch, 19 January 2018
- Andy Rowell, The curious case of the guard dog, anti-fracking protesters and North Yorkshire police, Spinwatch, 13 June 2018 and also shorter version in Opendemocracy.
- Russell Scott, Frack firm Third Energy warned by Environment Agency for multiple permit breaches, Spinwatch, 23 May 2018
- Melissa Jones, Russell Scott, Third Energy discuss new fracking well with North Yorkshire Police, but not the community Spinwatch 30 July 2018
- Melissa Jones, Russell Scott, Why are counter terrorism police still spying on the anti-fracking movement?, Spinwatch, 9 September 2018
- See TIMELINE: FRACKING IN THE UK 2010-2017
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