Setting out plans to help with soaring energy bills, new Prime Minister Liz Truss confirmed she will reverse the ban on fracking in the UK.

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Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock.

It was halted in the UK in 2019 amid opposition from green groups and local concerns over earth tremors, but there had been calls to rethink its use, given the soaring cost of energy.

What is fracking?
Fracking involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer in order to release the gas inside.

The wells can be drilled vertically or horizontally in order to release the gas. The term fracking refers to how the rock is fractured apart by the high-pressure mixture.

Why is it controversial?
The injection of fluid at high pressure into the rock can cause earth tremors - small movements in the earth's surface. More than 120 tremors were recorded during drilling at Cuadrilla's New Preston Road site.

Seismic events of this scale are considered minor and are rarely felt by people - but are a concern to local residents.

Shale gas is also a fossil fuel, and campaigners say the resumption of fracking risks distracting energy firms and governments from investing in renewable and green sources of energy.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said doubling down on fossil fuels is a "ludicrous" answer to the energy crisis, given the threat that climate change poses to the planet and future generations.