Fracking won’t work in UK says founder of fracking company Cuadrilla

Chris Cornelius says geology is too challenging and government's support is merely soundbites'

• Why fracking won't work for the UK - Chris Cornelius and Mark Linder

Fracking in the UK will be impossible at any meaningful scale and will not help with the energy price crisis, the founder of the UK's first fracking company has warned.

Chris Cornelius, the geologist who founded Cuadrilla Resources, which drilled the UK's first modern hydraulic fracturing wells in Lancashire, told the Guardian that he believed the government's support for it is merely a political gesture".