\u201cThe way through [local opposition] is to have a couple of test wells for a couple [of] years,\u201d Tice said, \u201cusing different extraction techniques, under independent supervision and monitoring, so that one can show to people it can be done safely. I think that is the way through it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd, cards on the table \u2014 if you do a couple of test wells and, in a sense, for whatever reason, it doesn\u2019t work out, then my hands are up, and I\u2019ll say: \u2018It was the right strategy to try, it doesn\u2019t work, but at least we\u2019ve tried and we know.\u2019\u00a0 That\u2019s my position.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
If Reform can find a way to win the political battles, it will also have to show it was right about bringing down bills for hard-pressed voters. And the impact of even extensive fracking on energy bills is disputed. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.K.\u2019s gas price is largely determined by Europe-wide supply and demand, as well as the global market for liquefied natural gas shipped across oceans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In theory, significantly higher U.K. domestic production could lower wholesale gas prices enough to shift\u00a0household energy bills, said one energy industry expert, granted anonymity to discuss a politically sensitive topic. \u00a0<\/p>\n
But even in this \u201cmost boosterish but still-credible scenario,\u201d they said, it would \u201cknock gas bills down by maybe a fiver or a tenner per year at peak.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is more likely to raise government revenue than cut bills, the industry expert added. And then only \u201cif it works at scale … which is uncertain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe way through [local opposition] is to have a couple of test wells for a couple [of] years,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[8719,5109,748,2311,5177,6659,23522,12495,33,35,6643,25833,393,728,5435,4884,33190,806,2828,12270,1749,2441,25809,12337,384,1144,2661,391,47,11666,2343,8721,48,5112,5549,712,112308,22793,112952,16,15,1764,771,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-308185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-andrea-jenkyns","11":"tag-boris-johnson","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-climate-change","14":"tag-columbia","15":"tag-crisis","16":"tag-david-cameron","17":"tag-development","18":"tag-elections","19":"tag-energy","20":"tag-energy-prices","21":"tag-energy-supply","22":"tag-england","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-gas","25":"tag-great-britain","26":"tag-health-professionals-workforce","27":"tag-industry","28":"tag-kwasi-kwarteng","29":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas","30":"tag-liz-truss","31":"tag-markets","32":"tag-mayors","33":"tag-missions","34":"tag-nigel-farage","35":"tag-northern-ireland","36":"tag-oil","37":"tag-opinion","38":"tag-poll","39":"tag-produce","40":"tag-research","41":"tag-richard-tice","42":"tag-rights","43":"tag-rishi-sunak","44":"tag-safety","45":"tag-scotland","46":"tag-shale-gas","47":"tag-skills","48":"tag-trucking","49":"tag-uk","50":"tag-united-kingdom","51":"tag-wales","52":"tag-war","53":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}