Fracking Abandoned

Just mis-read the title for this. You can imagine what I thought. Bit much for a Sunday afternoon, but no, all is well.

There has been fracking going on not far from me, "Sirius" and there have been minor earth tremors,so I hope it eventually banned for good

NotTooOld : ''but don't fall into the trap of thinking you can trust any of the others either.''

and yet- there is a massive difference. A lifetime of lying and deceiving by Boris- on a massive and proven scale.

I agree, it's excellent news.

Living in Lancashire, we see on the local news about all the issues surrounding fracking. It should never have been allowed in the first place.

People living near to the area have seen damage to their homes, and house prices drop enormously.

Hopefully fracking will not resume.

I should add, cynical, moi?

Excellent news. I'm so pleased. For those of you who say you can't trust Boris, well, perhaps you can't but don't fall into the trap of thinking you can trust any of the others either.

1. Hmm, the timing of this announcement does make you think it's an election ploy.
2. I'm not actually sure this is good news. We are still heavily reliant on gas and will need to buy it in from elsewhere (having first negotiated post-brexit trade agreements of course.

3. Amongst all the "Fracking Halted" headlines, I noticed this small piece in today's Sunday Times: "Deep coal mining will return to the UK after the government decided not to intervene in Cumbria County council's decision to grant permission for a new colliery. The mine will extract coal from under the sea bed off St Bees, creating 500 jobs"

Deep coal mining is much more damaging to the environment and hazardous to life than fracking.

It’s a temporary ban until the science shows it’s safe. I’m willing to bet the science will show just that by the end of December.

Don`t get relaxed about it, it is only a temporary ban and my family member an anti fracking activist up north, says to remain watchful. Big industry and brown envelopes will not let this slip away

My first thought was " that's good news" my second this is all about the election and gaining votes in the North West & North East. But then again maybe I'm just a cynical old thing

Leadsome has made it clear the ban was temporary. I do not trust them one tiny little bit. It is just an election (one more in a long series) bribe.

I'm not too sure. On the radio this morning, the presenters were discussing the issue and it turns out that fracking is too dangerous to continue. The government will wait to see if the fracking industry can come up with scientific evidence to prove otherwise. But this will be very hard for them to do as the technology just doesn't exist. Apparently, the UK is full of fault lines and the imaging technology to locate these fault lines (in order to avoid them) just isn't there, and the government spokesperson said it was unlikely to be available for a long time.

Having read some of the comments, I think that they could be right about this being a cynical ploy. Poor old mother earth, they won't be happy till she implodes. Or chews us up and spits us out.

Fracking should clearly never have been permitted in the first place. Too much has now been invested in it for anyone to believe seriously that it will be stopped for long. 'Playing politics' is a much used Andrea Leadsom expression. Quite so. How can these tory politicians be so un-self-aware?

If the Tories get in fracking will be back on the agenda, and no doubt all the Tory supporters will be thinking up good reasons why that should be the case.

Now waiting to hear about HS2

It's only been suspended - I wonder why?

glorious news for humanity was Boris Johnson's previous opinion on fracking.

I don’t care if it’s an election ploy or not, just good news that it has been given the red light.It seems obvious that this method of extraction could cause all kinds of problems.

It's great news. Full stop.

I agree with you, Luckygirl. Fracking has been halted - for now. Convenient for the government to announce this at the start of the election campaign.

I am sorry to be so cynical, but I believe this to be an election ploy to try and get some greenies on board for Dec. 12th.

If the Tories form the next government, they will very quickly bow to the financial vested interests and reinstate it.

Oh dear, yes I can see all the news on it now, but my first google search revealed very little, haha! Very good news, so pleased with this announcement.

Amazing that they ever considered it viable in this country. In some parts of the US earthquakes are up by 900per cent. Expect they get away with it because they ate so much less densley populated in some areas.

U-turn.

Labour had already announced it was banning it.

But the Tories are only stopping it for the time, it isn’t a complete ban.

I would like to see what is in their manifesto, as I don’t trust Johnson at all not to reintroduce it after the election to please his powerful friends.