UK Government Urged to Halt Sealing of Fracking Wells Amid Energy Crisis

UK Government Urged to Halt Sealing of Fracking Wells Amid Energy Crisis
Undated handout file photo of the Cuadrilla hydraulic fracturing site at Preston New Road shale gas exploration site in Lancashire. Cuadrilla/PA
Alexander Zhang
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The UK government has been urged to withdraw its instruction to plug the country’s only shale wells and lift the ban on fracking to alleviate the energy crisis which has been worsened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The government imposed a moratorium on shale gas mining in England in 2019 after two minor earthquakes were attributed to fracking operations.