Reporting of the politics at national and local level of the shale gas and fracking debate
MPs debated the Queen’s Speech this week, which included measures which ministers said would curb protest and promote energy security. DrillOrDrop has compiled a selection of Westminster comments on these issues.
The government announced today it was reviving plans to make the popular protest technique of locking on a criminal offence.
The government’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent today.
An energy minister has rejected industry suggestions that it can produce fracked gas within 18 months.
The government has now missed its own deadline by two years for decisions on shale gas schemes in south Yorkshire and Cheshire.
A group of backbench Conservatives has urged the government to ease the planning laws on shale gas schemes.
UK electricity will be 95% low carbon by 2030, with a “major acceleration of homegrown power”, the government announced tonight.
The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has ordered a scientific review of the impact of fracking.
The MP representing the area around Cuadrilla’s shale gas site in Lancashire has opposed efforts by some fellow Conservatives to lift the moratorium on fracking and relax regulations on earthquakes.
A group of MPs has launched an inquiry into how the UK can phase out fossil fuel use more quickly.
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