'Fracking is a false solution to the cost-of-living crisis,' a friends_earth campaigner said of the U.K.'s new energy policy, instead urging investments in 'cheap, clean renewables and a nationwide home insulation and energy efficiency program.'
, unveiled amid soaring costs tied to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and fossil fuel industry war profiteering.
"It will, however, make the climate crisis worse and further entrench the U.K.'s dependence on the very same fossil fuels that are at the heart of the current social and economic crisis," she continued."There is an urgent need for sensible short-term solutions for energy efficiency in homes, reducing nonessential energy use, and accelerating the rollout of readily available alternatives to replace fossil gas and oil.
"Anyone who thinks that bringing back fracking will solve the energy crisis is living in cloud-cuckoo-and," he argued."Fracking is a failed industry that's unpopular and unfeasible." After a series of earthquakes around Cuadrilla Resources' Preston New Road fracking operation and the Oil and Gas Authority concluded it could not rule out future seismic activity, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy said that"further consents for fracking will not be granted" unless the industry"can reliably predict and control tremors.
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