The Government sees fracking as the answer to the UK's energy problems. But as Alex Stevenson reports, support for it is weak among Lib Dem MPs, not to mention their voters. Could fracking soon be finished?
… shale has a lesser carbon output than heavy coal, it's still a very large contributor to … a more Conservative mindset from their coalition partners. Or perhaps it's down to …
Would UKIP be riding so high if voters knew of the party's links with powerful right-wing US corporate interests promoting fossil fuels, denying climate change, opposing gun control, and supporting big tobacco, teaching creationism in schools, healthcare privatisation and the lifting of nuclear power regulation? An Ecologist investigation exposes the real UKIP.
… based on "proven technologies" including coal and gas. In his speech to the party's …
Ministers are determined to get fracking under way in the UK as fast as possible, so it's a 'fait accompli' in time for the election, writes Alex Stevenson. With a firm pro-fracking concensus in Parliament, only one thing can frustrate their plans - strong local campaigns to turn around MPs desperate for re-election in 2015. It even has a name: democracy.
… in power after 2015 might reverse the current coalition's efforts to make widespread … may surface with renewed ferocity. The coalition's junior partners are unlikely to … of fracked gas is comparable to that of coal. Add in the impact of shipping from US …