Fracking6 Sep 2022 09:01
This from the Daily mail today….”There is one fight worth picking, however, though there are doubts she has the guts to wage it: fracking gas. Whatever mix of renewables, nuclear and gas you look at to meet Britain’s energy needs in the next two to three decades, there is no escaping that gas will remain an essential, if declining, fuel in electricity generation.
So, rather than lining the coffers of gas-rich foreign despots who sell us the stuff, why not exploit the massive gas fields, especially in the North of England, under our own land and shores? Investment, new technology, highly paid jobs in the North: isn’t that the essence of levelling up?
Truss says she’s in favour of fracking if local people agree. But that is a cop-out. Fracking is either a national imperative or it is nothing. It is the job of national government to put the national interest first, whatever the resistance of local interests or the Green Blob, which would be apoplectic if fracking were given the go-ahead. We shall see if our feisty new PM has the stomach for that fight.”