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Xander Elliards

Experts spell out why Tories' 'desperate' fracking plans won't help energy crisis

A worker at the Cuadrilla fracking site in Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, Lancashire, and Prime Minister Liz Truss

LIZ Truss’s decision to lift the ban on fracking in England was based on “desperation and dogma”, a leading expert has said.

Stuart Haszeldine, a professor of geology at the University of Edinburgh, warned that decades of progress in the battle against climate change “could be reversed and thrown away for a few years of slightly cheaper gas for a few people, and a lot of profits for even fewer people”.

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