MPs have overwhelmingly rejected a bid to suspend fracking for shale gas during a debate on Government’s Infrastructure Bill for its report stage and third reading in the House of Commons yesterday.
A report published separately yesterday by MPs on the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee said shale fracking should be put on hold in the UK because it is incompatible with our climate change targets and could pose significant localised environmental risks to public health.
MPs on the cross-party Committee had attempted to table an amendment to the Bill calling for fracking to be suspended for up to 30 months while an assessment is carried out.
However, the government has agreed to Labour proposals for 13 new environmental regulations, including banning fracking in groundwater protection zone, to be met before shale gas extraction can take place. Ministers have also agreed to an "outright ban" on fracking in national parks.
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