Reporting of the politics at national and local level of the shale gas and fracking debate
Conservative-controlled East Yorkshire council has voted overwhelmingly against fracking locally in one of the first formal reactions to the government’s lifting of the moratorium in England.
Liz Truss did not mention fracking in her speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham. But leading campaigners from Greenpeace heckled over the party’s U-turn on the moratorium on fracking.
The business secretary has rejected local referendums as a measure of public consent for fracking.
The prime minister repeatedly said fracking must be with local consent when she was interviewed about fracking this morning by BBC Radio Lancashire. But she refused to rule it out in the county.
Councillors in East Yorkshire are to debate opposing fracking in the county.
Conservative MPs in shale gas areas have reacted angrily to the announcement by Jacob Rees-Mogg, that the moratorium on fracking had been lifted.
The UK government formally lifted the moratorium on fracking in England this morning.
The constituencies of senior members of the cabinet will be untouched by fracking. But key red wall seats taken by the Conservatives from Labour in 2019, often with small majorities, are in shale gas areas.
DrillOrDrop is compiling reaction to the government’s announcement that it will lift the moratorium on fracking in England.
The prime minister has given the go-ahead to fracking in England.
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