Energy bill “fails to ban fracking”
The government said today it would deliver its promise to ban fracking by outlawing the issuing of new onshore oil and gas exploration licences.
The government said today it would deliver its promise to ban fracking by outlawing the issuing of new onshore oil and gas exploration licences.
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has been urged to widen the moratorium on fracking in England to include all forms of the process.
A group of MPs is campaigning to stop all forms of fracking in England by including them in the moratorium.