Michael Fallon: Boris Johnson is wrong over shale gas ownership

摘要

MICHAEL FALLON has rejected calls from Boris Johnson to give households ownership of the oil and gas beneath their homes, saying the proposal would allow individuals to hold energy companies to ransom. The Mayor of London argued in The Telegraph that it was "no wonder the shires are in revolt" against fracking when they had no automatic commercial interest in the process. He urged the government to change the law so that "mineral rights" belonged to the landowner, rather than the Crown.