Is the UK now open for Fracking?
(By Dr Scott Summers – Shale Markets Profile for Scott) On Thursday the 6th October, the United Kingdom’s new Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid MP, permitted UK energy company Cuadrilla to frack at its Preston New Road, Lancashire, UK site.[1] His approval overturned Lancashire County Council’s earlier 2015decision,[2] in which it refused permission to extract shale gas…