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.
An official online petition is calling on the government to ban “small-scale fracking” for onshore oil and gas.
Plans to drill for gas and carry out small-scale fracturing near a North Yorkshire village have been published, eight months after they were first announced.