Infrastructure Bill [Lords]
Debate between Pete Wishart and Tim Yeo
Monday 26th January 2015
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Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP)
We will be pushing new clause 9 to a vote this evening to ensure that we have a proper moratorium on fracking. Will the hon. Gentleman and his Conservative party colleagues support us?
Mr Yeo
No, I will not support that. A moratorium would not serve Britain’s national interests.
Far from attacking the Government for rushing on this issue, our concern is that they have been going rather slowly. We could speed up the process of encouraging fracking, so that we can establish whether it is indeed a valuable natural resource whose exploitation would be generally for the benefit of consumers and the environment.