Fracking: note the deep shaft
Can they get over the paralysis induced by their climate obsessions and get on with what the US has done successfully for years, or are they just looking for another report to hide behind? The days of thinking gas could always be reliably imported at moderate cost are over.
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Senior Tories are calling for an end to the ban on shale gas extraction to help secure energy supplies, says BBC News.
The government has ordered a new report on the impact of fracking, days ahead of publishing its energy supply plan.
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has given the British Geological Survey (BGS) three months to assess any changes to the science around the controversial practice.
Fracking was halted in the UK in 2019 amid opposition from green groups and local concerns over earth tremors.
But senior Conservatives have been calling for a rethink in recent weeks.
They claimed fracking would give the country a “competitive and reliable source of energy” amid concerns over security of access and rising energy prices.
But other MPs and campaigners have warned against a change in direction, with Labour’s Ed Miliband saying the new report had “nothing to do with the energy needs [and] everything to do with the Conservatives bowing to their backbenchers”.
Fracking firms claimed the report was a “tentative first step” to overturning the ban and “exploiting [the] potential” of shale gas.
At the time of the moratorium, ministers said they would not change their minds without “compelling new evidence”.
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April 6, 2022 at 03:16AM
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