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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent

PM expected to reverse fracking ban as campaigners call for review’s release

People walk past an anti-fracking banner
Truss has been warned that fracking will not bring down energy bills. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Liz Truss must publish a recently completed review on fracking in the UK, green campaigners have urged, amid expectations the new prime minister will lift the moratorium on shale gas drilling immediately.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been sitting on a report delivered in early July by the British Geological Survey into the possible effects of fracking in the UK, including the danger of Earth tremors.

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