ENERGY experts rubbished claims fracking could land Britain a fuel bonanza yesterday as desperate Tories tried to push drilling ahead by offering a bung to targeted communities. 

A report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) has found there are an estimated 4.4bn barrels of shale oil in parts of southern England.

The study of the Weald basin, which stretches from Wiltshire to Kent, found there could be 2.2-8.5bn barrels of shale oil.