The Guardian – Truss to lift fracking ban despite lack of progress on tremor risks
Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to lift a ban on fracking, The Guardian says.
The paper looks into Prime Minister Liz Truss’s plan to lift a ban on fracking, even though a leaked government report suggests there has not been much progress made in reducing and predicting the risk of earthquakes caused by the practice.
The paper says it has seen a report by the British Geological Survey which admits forecasting fracking-induced earthquakes “remains a scientific challenge”. A government spokesman tells the paper any fracking would be done as “safely as possible”.