Frackers in U.K. Get Fresh Hope Government Will Loosen Rules
- Industry calls for relaxing seismic limits at drilling sites
- Strict regulations and environmental concerns slowed progress
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A change of British government has given the much maligned fracking industry another opportunity to make out its case for stimulating the controversial technique to tap unconventional natural gas reserves.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his new business minister, Andrea Leadsom, have come out in favor of hydraulic fracturing in the past. That could provide impetus for an industry that has all but ground to a halt thanks to strict regulatory limits on the seismic activity around fracking wells.