Taunton and Wellington’s MP, Gideon Amos, has made an impassioned plea to the Government to ban fracking in “our wonderful countryside.” Fracking is a controversial technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer, to release the gas inside. Mr Amos made his appeal in Parliament during a debate into the Government’s Carbon …
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