As fracking companies call for earthquake limits to be reduced and exploratory drilling could start as early as next week, a report shows reducing and predicting earthquake risk remains a ‘scientific challenge’
Kwarteng wrote that “no amount of shale gas from hundreds of wells dotted across rural England would be enough to lower the European price any time soon”.
The climate change committee has previously said it takes an average of 28 years for an exploration licence to lead to oil and gas production.
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Heatwaves, drought and floods should be triggering radical action on the climate. The next Tory leader looks like they’ll only make things worse.
Frost’s absurd claims come as scientists said that Britain’s record breaking heatwave would have been impossible without climate change.
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Nick Harvey is a policy officer at the British Ecological Society. The challenges that society faces do not exist independently, they interact and magnify each other. Despite this, it is easy for people working against what they consider to betest
“Firefighters are at the forefront of the climate emergency. The demands of the job are increasing but our resources have been under attack by government cuts for over a decade. 11,500 firefighter jobs have been slashed since 2010.”
