Fracking is back in business, after a controversial announcement last week from business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg. New analysis shows the constituencies which could be affected and – like Rees-Mogg’s – the ones which won’t.
Nearly 150 constituencies across England and Wales could be in line for fracking within months, after the Government lifted the ban on the practice.
Seismic Experts at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University confirmed today that rock configurations beneath Britain’s most advanced fracking project raise further questions over commercial feasibility of the controversial technology.
Other English sites besides Lancashire on the Bowland Shale will be even more technically difficult to extract, their research indicates. Devolved governments at Holyrood and in Cardiff have continued to rule out fracking.
The peer-reviewed study led by John Underhill, professor of exploration geoscience, and Dr Iain Anderson increases the onus on Cuadrilla and other would be extractors to avoid earth tremors when seeking to commercialise the fossil fuel.
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