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Baroness Lynne Featherstone writes…We must be an anti fracking party

By Lynne Featherstone | Fri 11th March 2016 - 4:15 pm

This weekend we have an opportunity to change our position on fracking. I believe we should take it.Since becoming party spokesperson for energy and climate change, I have spent many hours listening to party activists, experts and public reaction. It is clear to me that it is time for change.

We need energy security. We need sustainable energy. We need to meet our legally binding targets. Fracking will not deliver any of these. But it will deliver greenhouse gases.

It is not logical or sensible to develop fracking at the very moment we have signed up to the Paris agreement on climate …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged featured and fracking | 18 Comments

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