As global temperatures reach new record for January, at 1.7C above pre-industrial times, the UK Government needs to persuade multinational oil giants to invest more in renewables ...

The Energy Secretary (pictured) said yesterday he would stick to his party's manifesto commitment - even though the ...

Ed Miliband has pledged a permanent ban on fracking just days after the discovery of a giant gas field in Britain was ...

Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP for Gainsborough said: "I'm very excited and I'm not going to dismiss it." The gas is buried about 2km underground in shales and sandstones.

A giant gas field has been discovered under Lincolnshire that could fuel the UK’s entire needs for a decade, reducing ...

Doc Lloyd, Daisy Bradford and Columbus Marion "Dad" Joiner pose for a photo. In 1930, Joiner uncovered the biggest oil field ...

Thousands of jobs in the North Sea are being put at risk because the Government is driven by “zealotry”, the Conservatives ...

Energy minister replies that government is following 'due process' when it comes to two proposed Scottish oil and gas fields ...

Labour's Joani Reid - the granddaughter of late trade unionist Jimmy Reid - wants to see Scottish jobs protected.

Swinney accused Sarwar of trying to “scare off” investment in renewable energy and categorically denied the green light for new nuclear power facilities would be given. Scottish Greens’ co-leader ...

Last week, a judge upheld a legal challenge by environmental campaigners against the decision to grant consent to the ...