The appointment of Theresa May as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister is likely to be a good development for the UK oil and gas industry, according to her voting record in Parliament May has historically voted to help the onshore fracking sector, siding against explicitly requiring an environmental permit for hydraulic fracturing activities on January 26, 2015. The House of Commons followed May’s lead on the matter, with 319 voters siding with the new PM while 224 voters sided against her. On the same day last year, May voted not to ban the exploitation of unconventional petroleum for at least 18 months and not to require a review of the impact of such exploitation on climate change, the […]