Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Climate Change
Tory minister pushes to downgrade importance of climate change in trade deals
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’.
A Must Watch: Ed Miliband completely rips apart Jacob Rees-Mogg for lifting fracking ban
“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.”
Liz Truss unlikely to attend COP27 climate change conference, despite promising to do so
‘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’
Campaign launched to oppose Liz Truss’ plans to approve the biggest oil field in the North Sea
‘Rosebank won’t do anything to lower our energy bills, or make our energy supply safer.’
Report shows little progress in identifying earthquake risk, as drilling licences expected to be issued next week
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’
Kwasi Kwarteng’s big fracking hypocrisy
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”.
Liz Truss to approve up to 130 new oil drilling licenses as soon as she becomes PM
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.
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
With the climate crisis at our door, the Tories are fiddling while the earth burns
Heatwaves, drought and floods should be triggering radical action on the climate. The next Tory leader looks like they’ll only make things worse.