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.
Residents in North Yorkshire are being urged to stand together to fight plans for lower-volume fracking.
An environmental campaigner is challenging the government over what he says are “misleading” and “inaccurate” claims about the controversial issue of fracking.
The Reform UK mayor of Greater Lincolnshire has said her party will frack a shale gasfield near Gainsborough if it wins the next general election.
The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has been urged to widen the moratorium on fracking in England to include all forms of the process.
An official online petition is calling on the government to ban “small-scale fracking” for onshore oil and gas.
A group of MPs is campaigning to stop all forms of fracking in England by including them in the moratorium.
New government guidance on assessing carbon emissions from oil and gas production has been welcomed by environmental campaigners.
The government is to consider all volumes of hydraulic fracturing when it introduces its ban on the process, an energy minister has said.
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