Conor Burns said he had been fighting back in his first two weeks at the Department for International Trade against plans ‘to push net-zero and the environment to the top of every single trade agreement as a sort of policy objective’.
“So first, why doesn’t [Rees-Mogg] admit the truth, that anyone who knows anything about this subject says his claim that fracking will cut bills is nonsense.”
‘In July, Truss told a hustings of Tory MPs that she would be at the next UN climate change conference — due to be held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in November’
‘Rosebank won’t do anything to lower our energy bills, or make our energy supply safer.’
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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