Poll results: large majority of Left Foot Forward readers opposed to fracking
83 per cent of you are against fracking, according to our poll.
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Fracking for shale gas: Hancock’s half-truths
The new energy minister calls shale “the holy grail” of energy policy. He’s probably right. It’s a mythical object that no-one’s found, and over time just has increasing comedy-value.
Combining road building and fracking is a toxic combination
Ministers have chosen to combine roadbuilding and fracking in a single toxic piece of legislation.
Why the government is resorting to increasingly desperate measures on fracking
People are right to still be concerned about fracking.
The British public can see fracking is no answer
Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, argues that David Cameron’s desperation to “sell” fracking to a reluctant nation is making him look like a second-hand car salesman with a real clunker on his hand
Today’s announcement on fracking has tilted the balance further in favour of fossil fuels
Today George Osborne more than halved the amount of tax the UK’s nascent shale gas industry will need to pay, from 62 per cent to 30 per cent.
The UK has among the best renewables resources in the world. Do we really need fracking?
Judging by yesterday’s announcements, the government believes the hype about shale gas. Like a love-struck teenager it seems blind to any downsides and is lavishing its beloved with gifts such as tax breaks and streamlined regulation.
Look Left: The Comprehensive Spending Review, fracking and (yet more) rape apologism
James Bloodworth looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Fracking: It’s economics stupid
Today, at 6AM in a release barely more than a paragraph long, the Treasury announced that the British Geological Survey (BGS) had found 1300trn cubic feet worth of shale gas trapped in the rocks beneath Lancashire.
How the right lost interest in climate change
As right-wing populist movements gain ground, we’re witnessing a deliberate undermining of climate science and policy at a time when extreme weather events, such as floods that claimed hundreds of lives in Spain and hurricanes that ravaged communities in Florida, confirm the need for urgent and bold action.