“Fracking is over” – UK energy minister https://t.co/H6u7LZPqO3 via @ruthhayhurst— Ruth Hayhurst (@ruthhayhurst) June 18, 2020
Mr Kwarteng made the comments while speaking about a new 50-megawatt cryogenic battery facility outside Manchester that will store renewable energy:
We had a moratorium on fracking last year and frankly the debate’s moved on. It is not something that we’re looking to do.
We have posted about this controversial climate-wrecking energy source over the years; how Aggregate Industries was there on the front line trying to profit from it; how the company was targeted by protesters in the process.
This week: Lancashire @UK_Nanas #fracking protests, @EHowardComposer & @takebacktheatre https://t.co/2GUgIQ7UmP pic.twitter.com/mBQ4pb1tte— Big Issue North (@bigissuenorth) January 16, 2017
Perhaps this has something to do with why the debate has moved on. In the US:
Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy https://t.co/P67NXAIHjm
— Financial Times (@FT) June 28, 2020
U.S. shale oil and shale gas producers: 11 years, -$342 billion in free cash flow. https://t.co/7JVJmpCr5t pic.twitter.com/zVnohHKfgF
— Nat Bullard (@NatBullard) June 28, 2020
