Climate Change
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.
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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.
Liz Truss supporter Lord Frost denies there’s a climate emergency and says we should back fracking and nuclear energy
Frost’s absurd claims come as scientists said that Britain’s record breaking heatwave would have been impossible without climate change.