FRACKING sites got a pardon last night, and regulators rescinded the order to finalize them in a matter of weeks.
Operator Cuadrilla has been informed that it will have until June next year to “evaluate options” for its two shale fuel wells.
The company has been invited to submit new proposals for the two Lancashire sites.
It comes as the prime minister tries to determine whether fracking will be a component of his next energy strategy.
Critics say it is dirty and dangerous, but Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay insisted: “Every conceivable path to domestic power will have to be maintained. “
Conservative MP Steve Baker added: “Continuing to import our fuel from the volatile, Russian-dominated European market obviously makes no sense in today’s world.
“The government’s next energy strategy will have to come with a commitment to review the moratorium, otherwise today’s news will be a rainy firecracker. “
Meanwhile, the UK is about to join the US. The U. S. treasury in releasing oil reserves to reduce prices.
Johnson chaired a roundtable of wind energy leaders, after speaking with the oil and fuel and then nuclear chiefs.
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