Thursday, October 27, 2022

Forbes: Britain Reinstates Fracking Ban Despite Buying U.S. Fracked Natural Gas

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, reinstated the country’s ban on hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) on Wednesday. That means no UK fracking for oil and gas.

It’s not surprising, given that most British people likely don’t know they are already consuming literal boatloads of fracked natural gas from the U.S.

Yet here we are with Britain thinking it's doing the environmentally suitable thing by not fracking and at the same time benefiting from the fruits of this energy extraction technique. Read more here.

Photo by KWON JUNHO on Unsplash

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