MP Support for UK Fracking

Lord Frost is among a group of Tory MPs urging the government to reverse the ban on fracking.That follows the announcement by energy firm Cuadrilla on Friday that it was ordered by the Oil and Gas Authority to abandon its shale gas wells in Lancashire.In 2019, the government decided to ban fracking.Former Brexit Minister David Frost told The Telegraph: “If our economy is to boom after Brexit, British industry needs a competitive and reliable source of energy which we hold in our own hands and brings investment into this country.“Shale gas production achieves all this and more. If we don’t produce it here, as we have seen, as we do is import gas from elsewhere, and push up overall carbon emissions too.“So let’s reverse the moratorium on shale gas and let a British energy renaissance begin.”Last week, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Minister for Brexit Opportunities reportedly suggested that there should be a return to fracking.Cuadrilla Chief Executive Officer Francis Egan had previously said: “At a time when the UK is spending billions of pounds annually importing gas from all corners of the globe and gas prices for hard-pressed UK households are rocketing, the UK Government has chosen this moment to ask us to plug and abandon the only two viable shale gas wells in Britain.”