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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Ross Hunter

Truss-backer Lord Frost in call to ditch 'medieval' renewables and embrace fracking

Lord Frost said that wind power is 'medieval technology' and called for the next prime minister to embrace nuclear energy and fracking

A PROMINENT supporter of Liz Truss has called on the next prime minister to stop focusing on offshore windfarms and pour money into fracking instead.

In a paper published by the think-tank Policy Exchange, Lord Frost, a former Cabinet minister in Boris Johnson’s government, wrote that the “current evidence” did not support the assertion that the UK faces a climate emergency.

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