Environmental campaigners and community groups have welcomed this morning’s decision by Lancashire County Council to refuse more time for restoration of a controversial fracking site.
A group of MPs is campaigning to stop all forms of fracking in England by including them in the moratorium.
Hundreds of people are expected to join marches across the UK this weekend as part of a global call for a rapid phase out of fossil fuels.
The UK government has rejected all the recommendations of a cross-party committee of MPs to speed up decarbonisation of energy supply.
The government has no plans to extend the moratorium on fracking to other forms of well stimulation, correspondence has revealed.
Conservative and Labour MPs in Lancashire have written to the business secretary, Greg Clark, demanding action following a series of tremors linked to Cuadrilla’s fracking operation near Blackpool.
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