Most of UK residents who oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, oppose to it due to the loss and destruction of the natural environment, with 64 percent of the respondents. A 2021 survey conducted by the UK Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) found that 50 percent of respondents think fracking is too much risk and uncertainty to support at present.
You said that you oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as fracking. Why is this?
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UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. (May 13, 2021). You said that you oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as fracking. Why is this? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/860594/reasons-for-opposing-fracking-united-kingdom-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. "You said that you oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as fracking. Why is this?." Chart. May 13, 2021. Statista. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/860594/reasons-for-opposing-fracking-united-kingdom-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. (2021). You said that you oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as fracking. Why is this?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/860594/reasons-for-opposing-fracking-united-kingdom-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. "You Said That You Oppose Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas, Otherwise Known as Fracking. Why Is This?." Statista, Statista Inc., 13 May 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/860594/reasons-for-opposing-fracking-united-kingdom-uk/
UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, You said that you oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as fracking. Why is this? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/860594/reasons-for-opposing-fracking-united-kingdom-uk/ (last visited April 26, 2024)
You said that you oppose hydraulic fracturing for shale gas, otherwise known as fracking. Why is this? [Graph], UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, May 13, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/860594/reasons-for-opposing-fracking-united-kingdom-uk/