Fracking industry lobbies for earth tremor severity limits to be eased

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Campaigners are accusing fracking bosses of 'changing the rules to suit their own ends'

Fracking firms are asking for earthquake limits to be eased after plans to lift the ban on the controversial practice were announced, meaning Lancashire's disputed shale gas wells could restart.

READ MORE: Tragic teenage boy suffered catastrophic brain injury after being thrown from electric bike Charles McAllister, director of UK Onshore OIl and Gas , called for amendments to the current ‘traffic light system,’ saying the system at present stopped testing for suitable sites. He told the Independent newspaper: “If the regulations on seismicity applied to shale gas development were applied to other sectors, such as the construction, quarrying or geothermal industry, they would not be able to operate in the UK.

Do you live near Lancashire's shale gas wells? Let us know your thoughts by emailing claire.barre@reachplc.com “PM Truss said they will only agree to fracking with community support, yet already the industry is trying to circumvent this by changing the planning rules because they know they will never get local support especially once people realise what fracking really entails and all the adverse impacts it has on those very communities. This does not even take account of the cumulative impact of methane emissions and our ability to reach our net zero.

They continued: "Why has the government let us become reliant on overseas energy when we have our own reserves that not only could fuel the UK but provide much needed jobs for people? I feel that unless a person has had to struggle for six months in an unfurnished council house with uncarpeted concrete floors, on a minimum wage job raising a family and having to wait a week to get their boiler fixed, then they should think twice about spouting their ideologies that the country cannot...

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