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We continue to need gas for heating, as Scrabble said. Also for a lot of industrial processes where we haven’t yet figured out how to dispense with gas.
The pro-fracking argument has generally been that we should be able to do it in the UK with better, tighter regulations that prevent the kind of scary stuff people have heard of in the US. How realistic that really is, I don’t know. But the gas has to come from somewhere - the North Sea is in decline and we’re growing more import dependent.