Campaigners express ‘alarm’ over Truss's pledge to lift the nationwide ban on fracking
Protesters Tracey Booker (right) and Pauline Jones at the fracking site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool, September 8, 2022
CAMPAIGNERS slammed as “alarming” today plans by new Prime Minister Liz Truss to break another Tory Party manifesto commitment and lift the nationwide ban on fracking.
Councillors across Gloucestershire said the controversial practice, which can cause earthquakes, is “not welcome” in the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean.
Six deep boreholes were drilled in and around the famous beauty spots between 1974 and 1990 to investigate promising rock structures that might contain energy-producing hydrocarbons.
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