The government is committed to extracting more oil and gas in the North Sea.
Reversing the ban on fracking does not present an easy, quick answer to high energy bills either.
"The problem is you don't know if you have a worthwhile resource until you've dug 50 to 100 wells, and that's a huge problem in Europe." "The US infrastructure for export is relatively limited, so they can only export a small proportion of what they're producing," said Kathryn Porter, an energy consultant at Watt-Logic.
But the boss of the fracking company Cuadrilla welcomed the lifting of the moratorium, saying: "This is an entirely sensible decision and recognises that maximizing the UK's domestic energy supply is vital if we are going to overcome the ongoing energy crisis and reduce the risk of it recurring in the future."New onshore wind energy could come online faster than gas.
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