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Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Boris Johnson’s father has warned the Liz Truss government not to put vital environment protections at risk in the “mad dash” for economic growth. […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Jacob Rees-Mogg said he would be “delighted” to have his own back garden drilled for shale gas as he defended the Liz Truss government’s push for fracking. The business secretary suggested that he would welcome […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Residents living close to one of the UK’s most controversial proposed fracking sites have reacted with astonishment after it emerged fracking companies themselves may be placed in charge of surveying local opinion on whether drilling […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Environmentalists and the renewable industry chiefs have tentatively welcomed the Liz Truss government’s plan to end a de facto ban on onshore windfarms in England. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget “growth plan” said the government would […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Liz Truss’s government is set to allow higher levels of seismic activity at shale gas drilling sites as part of its plan to lift the ban on fracking, Jacob Rees-Mogg has suggested. Despite concerns about […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email The government must pump tens of billions of public money into “gigafactories” that produce batteries for electric vehicles to secure the future of the UK car industry and create as many as 33,000 jobs, a […] More
Fracking firms are pushing for earthquake limits to be relaxed and want local objections to be bypassed ahead of Liz Truss lifting the ban in England.The new prime minister is expected to confirm the U-turn as early as next week – but the industry body has told The Independent the move will only kickstart the industry if new rules are brought in to make fracking easier.They should include speeding up planning permission by allowing ministers, instead of local authorities, to approve projects as “nationally significant infrastructure”, it says. More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Liz Truss’s new government has denied that it is abandoning its net zero target climate commitments despite bringing forward plans to legalise fracking. Levelling-Up Secretary Simon Clarke on Thursday morning confirmed that the government would […] More
