Shale Gas Extraction Debate
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Ruth Cadbury
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Shale Gas Extraction
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Mr Rees-Mogg
What is the hon. Gentleman going to say to his constituents when there is no gas going into their boilers to heat their hot water and their homes? This ridiculous hostility to gas as a transition fuel is absurd.
Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
Onshore wind power was, in effect, stopped by the Secretary of State’s Government, yet it is proven in the UK, cheap and ready to go now, and it provides zero-carbon power—it does everything that fracking does not. So will the threshold for community support for fracking be as tough as that for onshore wind development, where one objector can stop it?
Mr Rees-Mogg
Regardless of the benefits of renewables, we still need gas, which is what today’s statement is about.