We banished fracking once in Lancashire, and we’ll do it again | Barbara Richardson

As a campaign veteran, I know people here won't stand for the latest attempt to use the energy crisis to save a dying industry

We thought fracking in England was over after the government banned it in 2019. So the call by more than 30 Conservative MPs, along with the fracking company Cuadrilla, to reopen exploration in Lancashire is disappointing. It is also desperate: a last-minute attempt to use the recent energy crisis to save a dying industry.

And the people of Lancashire won't stand for it. Nor will other communities threatened by this damaging industry. Neither the company nor this minority of MPs seem to understand how united people are against fracking. It's telling that nobody who is publicly backing the letter is from an area directly threatened by fracking. Most are from the south, not the industrial" north, as it is perceived to be. These MPs and their allies are at best misinformed and at worst delusional.