Scottish government has a shale gas moratorium and the Welsh government has promised to block any applications. Cities like Greater Manchester need to join the group of leading cities on the world stage that are driving fast towards carbon neutrality. Manchester city council, one of its10 local authorities, has already agreed to the goal after accepting advice from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. “It’s even more worrying in Greater Manchester, which is a much more urban place, where there is more contaminated land, more mine shafts. In fact, the opposite.”Burnham accepted that Greater Manchester did not have the power to implement a ban on fracking.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2019 15:00 UTC