Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms
Reform UK promises to lift the fracking ban immediately and encourages firms to prepare licence applications, citing potential economic benefits including 250,000 jobs, amid political opposition.
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Reform UK wants to bring back fracking in Britain
Share this post: Reform UK is trying to resurrect one of the most destructive ideas in modern politics: fracking. The BBC is reporting that Richard Tice and Nigel Farage’s party is urging oil and gas firms to prepare licence applications for shale gas extraction, pledging that they’ll lift the ban “immediately” if they [...] The post Fracking is back on the agenda: Reform UK would turn Britain into an industrial wasteland appeared first on Vox P…
Why Scotland’s older ‘folded’ geology makes Farage’s ‘back of a cigarette packet’ fracking policy, stupid and dangerous
Support Talking-up Scotland's work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details Professor John Robertson OBAThe above BBC article, based on Reform UK comments, makes no mention of the older folded geology which Scotland is made up of almost entirely. I seemed to remember reading something suggesting that it would make frack…
Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms - Daily news Update
Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Media Trapped in underground rocks, a potential energy resource has eluded generations of British politicians. It’s called shale gas and the method of getting it out of the ground, known as fracking, has proved politically difficult. Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, has been banned many times by different prime ministers since 2011 over concerns about earthquakes and environmental impacts. And yet d…
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