London, Thanasis Gavos
His government United Kingdom ordered a report by experts on expediency recovery of shale gas in the country’s subsoilone more step towards change in London’s negative attitude towards this controversial energy source.
As pointed out, all sources of energy supply they should now enter on the table following the sharp rise in international oil and gas prices, which have risen further since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“While it is still true that shale gas extraction is not the solution to short-term pricing problems, it is right as a government, given the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by the Putin regime, to keep all possible energy production methods on the table,” he said. Minister of Business Kwasi Quarteng.
London imposed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in 2019 to extract shale gas under the pressure of reactions from environmentalists and as part of its commitment to zero emissions by 2050.
However, fracking is expected to be part of the government’s choices in the new energy strategy to be announced in the coming days.
In it, according to some information, is expected to exist and reference to a program to build new nuclear reactors on British soil.
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