BBC: Fracking moratorium 'should be extended' to underground coal gasification

Anti-fracking groups have called on the Scottish government to extend its moratorium on the development of unconventional gas.

They want it to include underground coal gasification (UCG), a technique used to produce gas from coal seams deep underground.

The groups claimed it was the most "experimental and frightening method".

The Scottish government said it was taking a "careful, considered and evidence-based approach".

It also said many powers relating to UCG were reserved to Westminster.

The Scottish government announced in January that it was imposing a moratorium on granting consents for shale gas and coalbed methane developments in Scotland while further research and a public consultation was carried out.

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