PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fracking: Regulation (24 April 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if it is his Department's policy not to review the limits on seismic disturbance.
Asked by:
Janet Daby (Labour)
Asked by:
Janet Daby (Labour)
Answer
The Traffic Light System for monitoring induced seismicity was introduced after consideration of advice from three scientists, following operations at Cuadrilla’s Preese Hall site in 2011. The level of magnitude 0.5 at which operators must pause operations, was set in consultation with industry as an appropriate precautionary measure. These regulations have been working as intended and there are no plans to review the traffic light system.
Answered by:
Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative)
1 May 2019
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