“The government is ignoring evidence of the risks and the wishes of local communities, by weakening regulation and opening up more of the country to fracking,” Rose Dickinson of Friends of the Earth told the BBC.

“Spreading the fracking threat to new areas will only increase opposition to it. Despite having had licences for years, the industry still hasn’t been able to persuade anyone to give fracking the go-ahead.”

Mr Lambert acknowledges the outlook for fracking in the UK is far from certain.

“Describing shale production within the UK as unproblematic would be misguided,” he says.

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