Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing (Protected Areas) Regulations 2015

My Lords, I will raise two matters, which the Minister skated over slightly in his introduction. ...

My Lords, I welcome the statutory instrument. I listened with great interest to my noble friend L...

I thank my noble friend. I have checked my notes. I misquoted, and I accept the correction: it is...

I assumed that that was the case. I thank my noble friend for that.

We are going to be depe...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing this statutory instrument today, w...

I thank the Minister for his explanation of the regulations. He has explained the Government’s ap...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and I will endeavour to cover th...

The concern is that we do not know what will happen to the geology once the fracking begins and w...

My Lords, I was going on to say—perhaps I will come on to it now—that the scientific and environm...

The Minister is being his usual self in being very full in his response, which I appreciate great...

My Lords, on the second point first, I was certainly not suggesting that the noble Lord, with his...