BusinessGreen: A former senior energy adviser to the government has argued that fracking in the UK should be focused on the "large, desolate and uninhabited areas" of the north east, contrasting the region with the "beautiful rural areas" where concerns over the environmental impact of shale gas exploration are justified. The Conservative Peer Lord Howell, who advised Foreign Secretary William Hague on energy and resource security and is also father-in-law to George Osborne, argued in the House of Lords today that...