The new government says it will help achieve energy independence, but opposition across the political divide may get in its way.
A 2019 ban on hydraulic fracturing has been lifted by the new U.K. government, despite a new report stating that forecasting the geological impact remains a challenge.
However, it remains contingent on local support, and fracking's opponents span the political divide, arguing it has harmful environmental effects and will impact rural communities. The ban was introduced in November 2019 after several tremors, and finally a magnitude 2.9 earthquake, were recorded near the U.K.'s only active fracking site, in the English county of Lancashire. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting water, chemicals and sand into cracks in the earth at high pressure, widening them to allow the extraction of oil, or in the U.K.'s case, gas from shale formations.
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