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Anti-fracking protesters

Can Liz Truss kick-start UK fracking by lifting the shale gas ban?

8 September 2022

The new UK prime minister says ending a moratorium on fracking will “get gas flowing” within six months, but there are many reasons why a boom is unlikely
Shale gas drilling in Blackpool, UK in August 2017

UK chose to pay back £640,000 to fracking firms after shale gas ban

25 March 2022

The UK government imposed a moratorium on shale gas extraction in November 2019, leaving fracking firms that had paid licence fees out of pocket, but the country's oil and gas regulator decided to refund them

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