Out of Proportion: UK Energy Secretary Admits Fracking Has Been Hyped

‘Britain’s Secretary of State for Energy, the Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey, has thrown a spanner in the government coalition-works by admitting fracking has been hyped and that his fellow Conservatives would “frack every bit of croquet lawn if they possibly could”.

The Energy Secretary, who is a Liberal Democrat member of the UK coalition government with the Conservatives, told Carbon Brief there was no evidence hydraulic fracking for gas or petroleum in the UK would transform the British economy and massively reduce prices.’

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