'Truss is ideologically joined at the hip to the network of neoliberal think-tanks that are just around the corner from Westminster.'
of 640 people per square mile, compared to the US which has a population density of 80 people per square mile.than the vast frack fields in the US and that's why companies which tried to frack before, like Cuadrilla, kept getting complications with earthquakes. Add complicated geology to the high density factor and that means fracking will happen close to people's homes and it's a recipe for disaster.
One of the people impacted by Cuadrilla's operations back in 2019 was Susan Holliday, whose home is barely 300 meters from the fracking site. Speaking recently to thenewspaper, she recalls the moment a 2.9-magnitude earth tremor hit her house."It was frightening. I personally felt seven or eight of these earth tremors and it's quite a scary situation to live in—and to think that could start off all over the country.
"It won't just be frontline stuff. We will oppose this with legal challenges, planning applications. We will pull out all the stops," she says."And this time we won't settle for a moratorium either. We're just going to keep on hammering this until we get the proper ban on fracking," she told the Guardian.
Other politicians have voiced opposition too. Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion has called Truss' decision"a massive kick in the teeth for [the] vast majority of communities who don't want fracking, a disaster for our climate, and a measure that will make absolutely zero difference to the cost of energy bills."
Nor are all the home nations agreed. Fracking might now happen in England or Scotland but not Wales. The Welsh First Minister,After the announcement key academics lined up to warn that fracking would not work in the UK and undermine climate goals too.
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