EXCLUSIVE: Campaigners hit back at minister’s pro-fracking “mythbuster”
The energy minister was accused of being a “propagandist for the filthy fossil fuel industry”.
The energy minister was accused of being a “propagandist for the filthy fossil fuel industry”.
Judging by yesterday’s announcements, the government believes the hype about shale gas. Like a love-struck teenager it seems blind to any downsides and is lavishing its beloved with gifts such as tax breaks and streamlined regulation.
Today, at 6AM in a release barely more than a paragraph long, the Treasury announced that the British Geological Survey (BGS) had found 1300trn cubic feet worth of shale gas trapped in the rocks beneath Lancashire.