Tory government breaks ruling ordering it to publish report on UK fracking
The obvious question – asked by Labour’s Jon Trickett in the quoted extract below – is clear:
If the Tories will break a legally-binding regulator’s ruling to hide the facts about fracking from the public, what other rules are they willing to break?
My guess is: all of them.
And if they’re hiding information from you, it’s because they are putting their own interests before those of the nation.
That’s no way for a government to behave.
The government has refused to abide by a ruling to publish parts of a report on the state of the UK’s fracking industry, Labour has pointed out.
The government was instructed by the information commissioners office (ICO) to release the document by 5pm on November 25th. This followed the failure of the cabinet office to respond to a freedom of information request submitted by Greenpeace in 2018.
The cabinet office had refused on the grounds the information “could call into question the industry’s viability” and was an internal government document exempt from the environmental information regulations.
Labour’s shadow minister for the cabinet office, Jon Trickett, said: “The Tories’ failure to publish this crucial report on fracking shows contempt for democracy and serves as a stark warning for what lies ahead if Boris Johnson is re-elected.
Labour has explicitly committed to a ban on fracking. The government halted fracking earlier this month but campaign groups are concerned that this is a temporary pause.
Source: Government refuses to publish report on fracking – LabourList
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The fracking in the USA has not paid off the capital cost or made a profit on operating costs. The UK government will have to pay large subsidies to the fracking companies. That is what they are hiding