UK Halts All Fracking -- FT -- November 2, 2019

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The decision comes at the start of an election campaign where opposition parties are set to make environmental issues central to their attacks on Boris Johnson’s Conservative party.

The government said there would be a “moratorium” on fracking until “compelling new evidence” showed that it was safe.

Although ministers insisted until recently that shale gas could help Britain make the “transition” to a zero carbon economy, replacing imported gas from the Middle East, fracking has been increasingly targeted by a powerful new environmental movement. 

Apparently global warming not as serious as the Brits once thought.