Day by day, UK shale industry and Tories are losing the battle to promote fracking
In their belligerent and blinkered attempt to replicate the US shale boom in the UK, the fracking industry and Conservative Government cannot bury three immovable and inconvenient truths that threaten to kill off the industry, even before it has been shown to be commercially viable.
Firstly, the simple one is scale: the UK is a small, densely-populated island and any fracking boom, with the number of wells it would require, was always going to pit community after community against the industry.