The UK’s next prime minister will be pro-fracking, last night’s leadership debate revealed, with both candidates for the job saying they would allow drilling for shale gas to go ahead "if local communities support it". Campaigners for fracking were delighted by the promises by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, recognising it as a "huge U-turn" after the moratorium on fracking put in place by Boris Johnson’s government in 2019. But the caveat that local communities must support fracking in order for it to go ahead has also been interpreted as failing to support fracking – as polls show support for new fossil fuel drilling is tiny. An editorial in The Sun today, which has long backed fracking, recognised the caveat as a major obstacle. It said: "Shale gas could provide us with crucial cheap energy for years. It cannot be up to locals to have a veto."
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I've seen "Energy Poverty" first-hand. It SUCKS. A high standard of living depends on affordable and reliable energy sources. Europeans are going to learn the hard way that the promises of the Far Left's Green New Deal and the Wackos that wrote the Paris Climate Accord will push more families into energy poverty.
A blow to the Green Bad Deal in the UK - July 27
A blow to the Green Bad Deal in the UK - July 27
Dan Steffens
Energy Prospectus Group
Energy Prospectus Group