UK Conservatives Urge PM to Lift Fracking Ban to Avoid Future Energy Crises

UK Conservatives Urge PM to Lift Fracking Ban to Avoid Future Energy Crises
Undated handout file photo of the Cuadrilla hydraulic fracturing site at Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire. Cuadrilla/PA
|Updated:

A group of senior Conservative lawmakers has called on Boris Johnson to reverse the government’s ban on fracking as the UK faces an acute energy crisis.

In a joint letter to the prime minister, 30 Conservative politicians, including former Brexit minister David Frost and former culture secretary John Whittingdale, said it is “time to reverse this moratorium” on shale gas mining, which came into effect in 2019.