Regulator gives gas exploration company another year to plug wells, amid UK energy security concerns
The UK’s oil and gas regulator has withdrawn a demand that the fracking firm Cuadrilla plug and abandon two wells in Lancashire, amid concerns about the UK’s energy security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Weeks after Boris Johnson appeared to waver over the government’s moratorium on fracking, imposed in 2019, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) issued a ruling that indicates the door to the controversial technology could be reopened.