The government in the UK has given a go ahead to a company to continue an extraction technique known as `fracking' to exploit gas in the country.

The approval comes with a set of conditions aimed at minimizing the risk from extraction activities. fracking involves creating little explosions underground and then flooding with water and chemicals to obtain gas trapped in shale rocks.

The government has given its approval to Cuadrilla, which had to stop its fracking based extraction after two small earthquakes were reported. The Prime Minister has said that the gas from shale gas extraction has helped bring a boom in production the US and resulted in a fall in process. He said that the same could be possible in the UK.

The Chancellor and some business leaders are enthusiastically backing the decision while others are critical of the controversial technique. Environmentalists have cited the examples from the US where there have been incidences of water pollution by chemicals used in the process and leakage of methane. It is believed that the technique would face stiff opposition in the UK as it requires turning green land into industrial sites.