The new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has restored the moratorium on fracking only weeks a month after Liz Truss’s government lifted the ban.
A Downing Street spokesman confirmed the news after Sunak was asked about the issue at his first Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which high-pressure liquid is fired at shale formations to release gas.
The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised not to lift the moratorium on fracking in England unless “the science shows categorically it can be done safely.”
Sunak told Parliament he “stands by” the Conservative Party’s 2019 election manifesto and promised to deliver on what Boris Johnson’s government had agreed at the U.N. COP26 climate talks in Glasgow….