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  Infrastructure Bill - New Clause 9 - Moratorium on Onshore Unconventional Petroleum - Review Impacts of Exploitation
  
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  @ MP voted aye to ban the exploitation of unconventional petroleum for at least 18 months and require a review of the impact of such exploitation on climate change, the environment, the economy, and health and safety be carried out and published in that time.  
  @ MP voted no not to ban the exploitation of unconventional petroleum for at least 18 months and not to require a review of the impact of such exploitation on climate change, the environment, the economy, and health and safety be carried out and published. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to ban the exploitation of unconventional petroleum (including "fracking") for at least 18 months and not to require a review of the impact of such exploitation on climate change, the environment, the economy, and health and safety be carried out and published. 
  
  MPs were considering the Infrastructure Bill[1]
  
  The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was:
  
  :â(1) All use of land for development consisting of the exploitation of unconventional petroleum in Great Britain shall be discontinued during the relevant period.
  
  :(2) The Secretary of State must ensure that an independent assessment is undertaken of the exploitation of unconventional petroleum in Great Britain including the use of high volume hydraulic fracturing.
  
  :(3) The assessment must take account of the impacts of the exploitation of the unconventional petroleum onâ
  
  :(a) climate change;
  
  :(b) the environment;
  
  :(c) health and safety; and
  
  :(d) the economy.
  
  :(4) The Secretary of State mustâ
  
  :(a) consult such persons as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and
  
  :(b) publish the assessment within the relevant period.
  
  : (5) For the purposes of subsections (1) to (4)â
  
  :ârelevant periodâ means a period of not less than 18 months and not more than 30 months commencing on the date two months after Royal Assent;
  
  :âunconventional petroleumâ means petroleum which does not flow readily to the wellbore.
  
  :(6) In section 3 of the Petroleum Act 1998, at the end of subsection (4) add âand subsection (4A).
  
  :â(4A) Nothing in this section permits the grant of a licence to search and bore for and get unconventional petroleum in Great Britain during the relevant period.
  
  :(4B) For the purposes of subsection (4A) ârelevant periodâ and âunconventional petroleumâ have the meaning specified in section [Moratorium on onshore unconventional petroleum] of the Infrastructure Act 2015.â
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/infrastructure.html Parliament's webpage on the Infrastructure Bill]
  
  
  
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