George Osborne's Fracking Policy

I have been getting a number of emails about fracking in Brent.  I am not aware that anyone wants to try in our area, as I understand that fracking takes place in shale, not clay, so Brent is geologically unsuitable.

The national government is determined to encourage fracking, which strikes me as a thoroughly misguided policy because of the fears over groundwater contamination, carbon emissions, instability and so on.  However, George Osborne has made changes in national policy that make it harder to resist fracking facilities in themselves, as the LGiU recently blogged, so other areas will be affected.