UK Prime Minister Liz Truss ends national ban on fracking amid energy crisis
FOX NewsMAR 28 2022
According to the BGS, little progress has been made in reducing and predicting the risk of earthquakes caused by fracking, and the companies themselves are lobbying for regulations on the drilling that causes tremors to be substantially reduced. The Conservatives are greenwashing this dangerous and environmentally irresponsible practice at the cost of the British people.
Fracking is just one of a portfolio of long-term reforms — including an increase in nuclear power capacity and renewable energy sources —that will aid the UK's energy security and reduce the nation's dependence on Russian oil. Even if only one-tenth of the 1.3K trillion cubic feet of gas that could lie underneath the UK is extracted, it could meet Britain's gas needs for decades.