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.
The former fracking company, Cuadrilla, has lost its bid for more time to restore its Lancashire shale gas site at Preston New Road, near Blackpool.
The energy department was questioned in parliament yesterday on the legal definition of fracking.
No new onshore oil and gas licences will be issued in England, the government announced today. The news followed a speech to the Labour conference in which the energy secretary confirmed his commitment to ban fracking.
The controversial issue of fracking in Lancashire has divided Reform politicians in the county from their national leadership.
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.
Cuadrilla’s Elswick gas production site near Blackpool has been granted a five-year extension.
The Reform-led Scarborough Town Council has voted unanimously against plans for lower volume fracking in the North Yorkshire village of Burniston.
The Conservatives have committed in their election manifesto to keeping the moratorium on fracking in England.
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