🗣 'Well organised communities have resisted drilling in the past and are likely to resume the fight once the moratorium is lifted.'
An aerial view of the Cuadrilla shale gas extraction site at Preston New Road, near Blackpool on September 16, 2019 in Preston, England. Similar sites are proposed in Yorkshire The experience of people in the Netherlands since fracking began there in 1963 shows there is good cause to fear fracking. Extraction of gas in the northern region of Groningen has caused thousands of earthquakes which have damaged homes and reduced entire neighbourhoods to disaster zones.
In the meantime, the Government’s proposed £100bn-plus fund to cap energy bills may need to be repeated up until 2025. And who will pay for this? That would be us: UK tax payers.Worst of all, extracting fossil fuels will put at risk the UK’s shift to a low-carbon and sustainable economy and imperil the Government’s own legally binding climate targets.
This will not only help people and businesses reduce their fuel bills by using renewable energy in their own homes and buildings, but also create secure skilled jobs for local people.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that the transition to renewables is likely to have a"net economic benefit". So the Government cannot claim the cost is too high while it allows the profits of fossil fuel giants to mount to obscene levels.
Truss has no authority to do this. She has not been elected by the people of this country in a General Election.