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Here's some good news – via Bishop Hill – from America. A Big Oil company – Chevron – is taking legal action against a group of environmentalists for fraud and extortion: aka greenmail. The sums involved are eyewatering:...

For my summer holidays I have been mostly reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand has her faults but, boy, was she prescient. One of the things she foresaw was the current nonsensical, dishonest, canting campaign against shale gas....

For my summer holidays I have been mostly reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand has her faults but, boy, was she prescient. One of the things she foresaw was the current nonsensical, dishonest, canting campaign against shale gas....

OK, so you're a BBC/Channel 4/CNBC commissioning editor. Or you're maybe in charge of the selection panel for the Sundance Film Festival. Or you're a feature writer for the New York Times and you're wondering which pieces...

Shale gas is the miracle which will transform the world. In America it's already doing so. The Poles are going mad for it, too. So why are we so reluctant to exploit this abundant resource over here? One of the main reasons...