Daily Mail: Fast track for fracking bids

Fracking sites could be fast-tracked through the planning system under new rules to be announced this week.

Ministers will be given new powers to push through shale gas applications if they are being held up by councils.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3191719/Fast-track-fracking-bids-Ministers-set-given-powers-speed-applications-delayed-councils.html

It is a response to concerns from ministers that Britain will have to rely on unstable imports and expensive solar and wind power.

Energy Secretary Amber Rudd warned the current system allowed applications to be ‘dragged out for months or even years on end’.

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