“Regardless of the query, fracking just isn’t the reply”
Liz Truss introduced immediately that the federal government plans to carry the ban on fracking. Fracking is a controversial methodology of fuel extraction which makes use of pressurised liquid to launch fuel from rock layers underground.
The transfer has been met with dismay and outrage from local weather campaigners.
Georgia Whitaker, oil and fuel campaigner at Greenpeace UK accused the federal government of utilizing fracking as “an try to distract” from the power disaster. She mentioned, “Proposing fracking is much less an answer to the UK’s power points and extra of an try to distract us from them. It won’t decrease payments. It won’t make us much less depending on unstable fuel markets. It won’t cut back our carbon emissions. It might nicely not work in any respect as a result of the UK doesn’t have the huge empty expanses of the USA.
“Earlier than the fracking moratorium, the business had ten years of the federal government ‘going all out for shale’ and giving all of them the help denied to onshore wind. In that point, the frackers produced no power for the UK, however managed to create two holes in a muddy area, site visitors, noise, earthquakes and massive controversy.
“The manifesto promise on which this authorities was elected was that fracking wouldn’t occur except the science modified, which it most emphatically has not. Communities who’ve this nonsense inflicted on them within the identify of an out-of-date ideology shall be questioning who their elected representatives are actually representing.”
These sentiments have been echoed by distinguished figures from the left of politics.
Chatting with Instances Radio this morning, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for local weather change and internet zero Ed Miliband mentioned of the plans to finish the ban on fracking, “That’s not an answer to this downside. As a result of fracking, the fracked fuel, even when it isn’t harmful, will value precisely the identical because the fuel we’re at the moment importing. There’s just one manner out of this, which is renewables, nuclear, offshore wind, onshore wind, photo voltaic”.
Mayor of Better Manchester Andy Burnham put it extra succinctly. He tweeted, “Regardless of the query, fracking just isn’t the reply.”
Inexperienced Occasion MP Caroline Lucas described the transfer as “a large kick within the tooth”. She tweeted, “An enormous kick within the tooth for overwhelming majority of communities who don’t need #fracking, a catastrophe for #local weather coverage, & a measure that may make completely zero distinction to the price of power payments. Performative politics at its worst”.
And chief of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron tweeted, “Hmmm. Photo voltaic panels = unhealthy. Fracking = good. Good. Tradition conflict turns in any other case clever folks into absolute berks”.
Chris Jarvis is head of technique and growth at Left Foot Ahead
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