UK Government support for fracking is a "smokescreen" to hide its failure to lower the cost of energy, an SNP minister has said.
Michael Matheson told the Record the controversial method of extracting shale gas would not be approved for use in Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary for Energy insisted the technique would make "no difference" on household fuel bills.
Liz Truss pledged to end a moratorium on fracking in England shortly after she became Prime Minister last month. But the embattled Tory leader has so failed to explain exactly how the policy would work and is already facing pressure from her own MPs to ditch it.
