People in England can find out if fracking could come to their area by entering their postcode in a new interactive map, which illustrates the regions covered by oil and gas licences
The new prime minister claims gas could start flowing in fewer than six months, but experts say it would take years, is very difficult to access and would have little impact on energy bills."Energy security is important," Friends of the Earth campaigner Danny Gross told Sky News. But fracking's unpopularity and England's geological limitations mean the government is"living in a fantasy land if it thinks that fracking is the answer," he said.
But the most recent government polling finds just 17% of the public supported fracking in autumn 2021, compared with 87% who supported renewable energy."And the way to do that is to insulate homes, so that we don't need so much gas to heat [them]," as well as investing in renewable energy and unblocking restrictions on onshore onshore wind and solar, he said.
Many of the licences cover the Bowland Shale Formation, of particular interest for the fracking industry, which spans across the Midlands and the North of England.
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