Reform mayor courted US oil and gas executive about fracking in UK

Exclusive: Documents show Andrea Jenkyns asked how she could help firm after major gas find in Lincolnshire Lincolnshire’s Reform party mayor, Dame Andrea Jenkyns, has courted the head of an American oil and gas dynasty in the hope of bringing fracking to the county, the Guardian can reveal. Egdon Resources, a British subsidiary of the US fracker Heyco Energy, announced a major gas discovery in Lincolnshire’s Gainsborough Trough last year. Jenkyns, who became the first mayor of Greater Lincol...

By Hajar Meddah