Government accused of protecting Tory-voting South as every one of the 27 newly-awarded fracking sites is in the North and Midlands
‘The Government has been accused of protecting Conservative-voting southern constituencies from fracking, announcing that the next wave of shale-gas sites would all be in the North and Midlands.
Of the 27 oil and gas licences awarded by the oil and gas regulator, not one covered land south of Leicester. The new licences opened up 1,000 square miles of England to oil and gas exploration around Preston and Bolton, Leeds and Sheffield and Lincoln and Skegness.
The move follows controversy last summer when Lord Howell of Guildford, the former Tory energy minister and George Osborne’s father-in-law, suggested fracking should be limited to the North East of England because it has “large and uninhabited and desolate areas”.’
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