Shale-hungry Tories call for law change to allow fracking
Andrea Leadsom and her colleagues really want to get Britain fracking.
Andrea Leadsom and her colleagues really want to get Britain fracking.
"In all honesty I’m not too knowledgeable about fracking but as Steve Baker, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Nigel Farage are all for it thats all I need to know," one person said ironically.
The protesters were camped off Preston New Road near a Cuadrilla's fracking site in Lancashire
Labour said the Tories owed the communities whose wishes had been ignored an apology, and the public "an explanation of how much public money they wasted while ignoring the science."
The National Audit Office report comes amid continuing public concern over fracking.
Cuadrilla are under fire after a secret non-disclosure agreement between the fracking firm and the UK’s earthquake monitor, the British Geological Survey, was unearthed.
A tremor with a magnitude of 1.55 shook the ground last night, leading to the site being closed down while tests are carried out.
New estimates based on lab analysis of northern England’s shale resources suggests there may be less than 10 years worth of recoverable gas
The Government is pushing ahead with Fracking regardless of the potential environmental costs.
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