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Rees-Mogg’s neighbours fail to share ‘delight’ at back garden fracking

Few in Somerset MP’s constituency share his enthusiasm but some do agree with need for ‘unpopular measures’

The Guardian - UK

Fracking: the simple test for whether it should happen in the UK

The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, recently announced the reversal of the 2019 ban on fracking. Facing an acute energy crisis, the government want to increase domestic energy production.

The Conversation

$Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows$

Rees-Mogg seeking to evade scrutiny of new fracking projects, email shows

Exclusive: Note setting out business secretary’s views looks for ways to accelerate schemes, including streamlining HSE requirements

The Guardian - UK

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The magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells – and more are planned. Is that what Australians really want?

The heart-shaped Lake Eyre Basin covers about one-sixth of Australia. It contains one of the few remaining pristine river systems in the world.

The Conversation

Tory MPs plot to avert benefit squeeze after humiliating U-turns

Kwasi Kwarteng to bring forward fiscal statement to later this month amid disquiet in party over spending cuts hitting poorest

The Guardian - UK

Future gas exploration in Lake Eyre could upset the 'greatest desert river system in the world' forever

The gas industry has been mining Australia's Lake Eyre Basin for decades, but possible future extraction techniques like fracking could devastate its fragile ecosystem.

ABC News

Rees-Mogg tells Tories he’d welcome fracking in his back garden

Speaking at a conference fringe event, business secretary dismisses those who oppose practice as ‘socialists’

The Guardian - UK

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$Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘delighted’ to have fracking in his own back garden$

Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘delighted’ to have fracking in his own back garden

Business secretary says he would welcome cash royalties for allowing drilling on his land

The Independent UK

$Qld fracking risks leaving assets stranded$

Qld fracking risks leaving assets stranded

A new report from an anti-fracking group says projects in the Lake Eyre basin are unviable, as evidenced by one energy company recently abandoning its plans.

AAP

Fracking in Lake Eyre the ‘height of folly’, report suggests

Economic analysis suggests any proposal to allow fracking in Queensland basin would not be commercially viable

The Guardian - AU

Michael Gove warns he could revolt over tax cuts for rich - and benefit cuts for poor

The top Tory demanded a 'course correction, a reset', refused three times to rule out voting against Liz Truss, and warned it will be 'very, very, very difficult' to cut benefits for the poor and tax for the rich

Daily Mirror

$Astonishment as fracking companies may be placed in charge of testing public support for drilling$

Astonishment as fracking companies may be placed in charge of testing public support for drilling

Firms like Cuadrilla could be asked to show they have local consent for causing earthquakes – but residents sceptical they would be impartial

The Independent UK

$What harnessing geothermal power shares with fracking$

What harnessing geothermal power shares with fracking

The link between the fracking process and earthquakes is also a possibility in extracting geothermal energy

The Guardian - UK

The nine worst blunders Liz Truss made on this morning's tense radio tour

She used one phrase a whopping 61 times

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‘It sounds like you don’t know’: Liz Truss falters on fracking consent question

Asked what local consent looks like, PM hesitates and says she will make sure there is local consent

The Independent UK

Liz Truss lost for words during grilling from local radio on economic turmoil

The Prime Minister was questioned about rising mortgages, fracking, and a deteriorating hospital near to her constituency

The Guardian - UK

‘A reverse Robin Hood’: key exchanges from Liz Truss’s radio interviews

Memorable points from prime minister’s morning round of interviews at a glance

Manchester Evening News

"Enough to make your ears bleed": Listeners in disbelief at disastrous, awkward Liz Truss interviews this morning as Britain plunges into economic chaos

Ms Truss spoke publicly for the first time since the mini-budget sparked economic chaos

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Liverpool Echo

Liz Truss 'taken apart' in BBC radio interview as she 'crumbles under pressure'

"No wonder she went into hiding. Astonishingly bad interview"

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss can't even say WHERE key UK fracking site is in car crash interview

PRIME Minister Liz Truss could not even say where the fracking she has legalised is to take place in a series of car crash interviews…

Daily Record

What Liz Truss said to every BBC radio station during car crash round of interviews

The Prime Minister attempted to address concerns surrounding her mini budget in the House of Commons last week.

The Independent UK

Fracking could go ahead despite opposition from local councils, Liz Truss reveals

Prime minister says she will not rule out fracking in Lancashire, where the council is opposed

The Conversation

Why fracking holds such symbolic power for the Conservative right

The UK government has lifted a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) in England. In his statement, new business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued that it was in the national interest for local communities to tolerate “a higher degree of risk and disturbance” given the current energy crisis.

Belfast Live

The Earth's Corr: Fracking plans stark raving mad and will do nothing to lower energy bills

Fracking is environmentally destructive, has caused earthquakes, poisoned water sources and led to all sort of serious health concerns in the USA

The Guardian - UK

Labour will bring green jobs built on strong trade unions, because we cannot go back to the 1980s

From fracking to bankers’ bonuses, we know where this government’s interests lie, say Labour MPs Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband

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