The Telegraph: Fracking: MPs demanding ban 'listened to ill-informed green groups not science'
A committee of MPs has been accused of listening to “ill-informed” green groups instead of scientific evidence, after it called for a ban on fracking for shale gas, citing health and environmental fears.
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) on Monday called for fracking to be put on hold indefinitely, and at a minimum banned in national parks, amid “huge uncertainties around the impact that fracking could have on water supplies, air quality and public health”.
Developing shale gas is also “incompatible” with the UK’s legally-binding climate change targets, it claimed.
Eight committee members, including former Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman, have cited this as grounds for a moratorium onfracking, in an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill, due to be debated on Monday.