A TORY MP has suggested “the northern reaches of Scotland” as a site that could be appropriate for fracking, while dismissing the possibility of it happening in her own constituency.
Laura Farris, MP for Newbury, was on the BBC’s Politics Live on Wednesday while discussing Liz Truss’s proposal to allow fracking in areas where there is “community consent” – a scheme which the PM has failed to provide details for.
While refusing to entertain the prospect of it happening in her own constituency, Farris said it was not “unreasonable” that, while the UK was looking to bolster its energy security, “we should at least explore whether there is more potential in shale gas”.
