The U.K. government lifted its ban on fracking Thursday, citing the need to increase domestic energy supply following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In her first major address on Sept. 8, new Prime Minister Liz Truss said ending the ban on extracting the U.K.’s “huge reserves of shale ... could get gas flowing in as soon as six months, where there is local support.” The ban was introduced in November 2019 after several tremors, and finally a magnitude 2.9 earthquake, were recorded near the U.K.‘s only active fracking site, in the English county of Lancashire. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting ... (full story)