Arbeitspläne neues Gesetz, um das Fracking dauerhaft zu verbieten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjedpl9kpv2o
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
Arbeitspläne neues Gesetz, um das Fracking dauerhaft zu verbieten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjedpl9kpv2o
Von F0urLeafCl0ver
19 Kommentare
This sounds like the confident actions of a man who thinks his party will be in the majority come the next election………………………
This is a good move, but its not great that its needed. Fracking produces tiny amounts of gas, costs huge amounts of money, and is massively polluting.
Theres no rational reason to do it, even if its legal.
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God the BBC editors really trying to get the worst photo of Ed possible.
Though I’m glad he’s still energy minister, does seem like he’s one of the few in the cabinet who have convictions and beliefs.
You have to verify youre over 18 to watch fracking in the UK
How does a government ban anything *permanently*?
*If* Reform got a majority (or any collaboration between those that will want it, they’d just overturn it along with anything else
Seems a silly statement to me, a more tactful approach would be to ban it while still hanging on a *yeah reform could undo this if they got in so let’s make sure that doesn’t happen folks*
Fracking will be banned forever until a new law rescinds it or just allows it. Parliament is sovereign and future Governments can repeal or modify previous laws.
I like the idea of fracking. With much oversight.
You can’t ban something permanently, any future gov (or even the same one) can just repeal the law…
Can we just ban Ed Milliband?
But… That doesn’t work? You can’t ban something permanently here can you? If reform get a majority they unban it and frack away.
Another reason to not for Reform (they want to start Fracking and cut funding to renewables).
If you ever needed confirmation that the BBC comment section is botted to hell
Yea you’d think ol‘ Bacon Boy would know that this isn’t workable because you can’t prevent future parliaments from repealing or amended laws.
>At the conference, ministers have also said they are considering removing policy costs from energy bills to make electricity cheaper.
So where are they going to place those policy costs? Taxation, or has been suggested by Labour, moving the cost to gas.
We don’t have a codified constitution. It’s impossible to ban anything permanently in this country.
Reform will repeal this with a stroke of a pen on day one when Farage is PM.
I look forward to councils and government bodies no longer wasting time and money debating with companies trying to frack in the UK.
Reform are also pro-fracking, despite all of the proven negative impacts it has, so it’s a good way to show why they’re not good for the country, as they would want to repeal such a law.
By ‚permanently ‚, they mean until they lose the next election
Good. TOOT TOOT. Labour doing good stuff. More good stuff please.
Good stuff. Shame everyone is getting hung up on a single word in the headline.
Why legislate it? Simple:
It shows government commitment to a long term goal.
It makes it more difficult to rescind in future.
It means that any future party that wants to repeal it has to nail their cross to the door on it (so to speak).
Whilst the main focus should of course be reducing hydrocarbon use, it’s such a head-in-the-sand mentality of banning oil & gas extraction in the UK whilst still using colossal amounts. It’s like a repeat of the 90s/00s supposed decrease in Western carbon emissions „achieved“ by outsourcing manufacturing and heavy industry to China (taking them from a moderate emitter to the world’s largest).
Worse still, we’ve switched from North Sea oil & gas to increasingly from perverse sources such as:
* Gas fracked in North America, inefficiently liquified & transported thousands of miles (at great carbon cost) and often fracked in places where the massive water requirements are far worse ecologically,
* Oil from countries with horrific environmental standards that would be utterly unacceptable in the UK, such as Algeria & Nigeria (where widespread ecological devastation has resulted),
* Oil & gas inefficiently obtained from Canadian tar sands inefficiently extracted, ecologically damaging and at a large carbon cost.
We ultimately need to reduce hydrocarbon use, but this „playing pretend“ reduction mode of banning extraction in the UK whilst quietly importing far higher emissions sources from abroad is hugely counter-productive and just plain populism at its worst.