The UK High Court has decided key elements of the government’s national hydraulic fracturing policy are unlawful.
The ruling follows a judicial review challenge to the government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) by environmental campaigning group Talk Fracking.
The legal case argued the NPPF was unlawful because the government “failed to take into account scientific developments which call into question the ‘low carbon’ claims put forward in support of fracking”.
