The government said today there was no evidence of risk from lower volume fracking. This suggests, for the first time, that the government’s proposed ban on fracking will not include lower-volume processes, such as proppant squeeze.
The energy department was questioned in parliament yesterday on the legal definition of fracking.
An environmental campaigner is challenging the government over what he says are “misleading” and “inaccurate” claims about the controversial issue of fracking.
A council is being urged to refuse plans that would use a form of fracking to explore for gas at Burniston near the North York Moors National Park.
The government is to consider all volumes of hydraulic fracturing when it introduces its ban on the process, an energy minister has said.
A gas company that criticised campaigners for using the word ‘fracking’ for a well operation in North Yorkshire used the same term for the same process in correspondence with officials.
The government is proposing no changes to national planning policy for onshore oil and gas.
A council which backed fracking nearly six years ago has adopted new planning rules that could restrict proposals for the controversial process.
The government’s climate advisor has addressed possible loopholes in the COP26 agreement on phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.
The definitions of fracking in the UK are limited, ambiguous and inconsistent, a new study has said.
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