BBC: Nick Clegg backs shale gas fracking in East Midlands
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has given strong backing to use fracking to drill for shale gas in the East Midlands.
"I don't think we should turn our nose up at a whole new industry or technology," he told me.
As the Liberal Democrats gather for their annual conference in Glasgow, his support for fracking is significant nationally and for a region like the East Midlands.
The British firm IGas Energy estimates that shale gas from Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire alone could produce 10% of UK gas needs within 10 years.