journalists in the working conditions and what we saw the surveys over the years of last three years the patent that has emerged is that covid restrictions have been used as an additional way of control for journalists. an additional way of control forjournalists. last year over half were told to leave an area because of their own safety or public safety reasons when in fact there was no covid reason for them to leave. so the track apparatus that the government has created like the health kit that shows up on your mobile phone that shows up as a traffic light system, green, red or orange according to whether you have been to a high risk area or not. those systems can also be used to trackjournalists systems can also be used to track journalists and systems can also be used to trackjournalists and to restrict your own taxes. 50 restrict your own taxes. so they are restrict your own taxes. so they are using covid as a excuse what are the methods used? ,, . . excuse what are the methods
tested isjust process that has not been tried and tested is just plain false. let s process that has not been tried and tested isjust plain false. let s be clear, the industry signed up to the traffic light system saying that a red event was 0.5. what took place in august 2019 was a 2.9 on the richter scale. that is 251 times more powerful than a red event. and the government is believed to be looking to change a red event to a forum, which is 3100 times more powerful than the current 0.5 red event. these are dramatic and huge changes that the government is potentially seeking to do. i think the people back to what the prime minister said, a woman of integrity, she said this would only take place with local consent, and that is what we have to base this on. part of the government s we have to base this on. part of the government s case we have to base this on. part of the government s case is we have to base this on. part of the government s case is that - we have to base this on
significant seismic event that took place in my constituency. so to pretend this is a process that has not been tried or tested. list be clear, the industry signed up to a traffic light system let s be clear. what took place in august 2019 was a 2.9 on the richter scale. that is 250 times more powerful, and the government is believed to be looking at changing a red event to a four, which is 3100 times or powerful than the current 0.5 red event, so these are dramatic and huge changes, that government is potentially seeking to do. i take the people back to what the prime minister said. the prime minister is a woman of integrity. she said this would only take place with local consent and that is what we have to base this on. let s talk a bit more about fracking. i m joined by professor richard davies, petroleum geologist from newcastle university. it is very controversial subject as we have been hearing, but you are
the government is looking at raising the government is looking at raising the magnitude limit on tremors allowed through the process of fracking. so could we expect local communities to try to dispute this and try to go to court and stop the government doing this? that and try to go to court and stop the government doing this? government doing this? that will de-end government doing this? that will de end on government doing this? that will depend on the government doing this? that will depend on the local government doing this? that willj depend on the local communities themselves, and what kind of position they take on this. what the government seems to be doing here is bearing in mind what the british geological service has said in the report adds today which seems to suggest that while there is a case for having what they call a traffic light system for regulating how drilling proceeds and where you have pauses if things go wrong, it s worth considering at what point it is paus
speaking to lawmakers, the energy secretary if dismissed those concerns. it isa it is a safe, it is shown to be safe, the scare stories have been disproved time and again. the h steria disproved time and again. the hysteria about disproved time and again. tie: hysteria about seismic disproved time and again. he hysteria about seismic activity fails to understand the richter scale is a logarithmic scale, it seems to think it is a straight scale, which it is not. and bringing on this supply will bring us cheaper energy, which we need. here s our international buisiness correspondent, theo legget. what the government seems to be doing what the government seems to be doing here what the government seems to be doing here is keeping in mind what the report doing here is keeping in mind what the report says, which is while there the report says, which is while there is the report says, which is while there is a the report says, which is while there is a case for having what they c