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No, using less oil won't boost America's energy security – it'll make it poorer and beholden to communist China, says Tilak Doshi. How long until progressive 'experts' grasp this entry-level economics?
A giant gas field has been discovered under Lincolnshire that could fuel the UK's entire needs for a decade, reducing dependence on imports and generating tens of thousands of jobs, an energy company has said.
If Trump does half of what he's said he'll do on 'Day One', he's going to have a very busy day. It includes pardoning the Jan 6th defendants, slapping 25% tariffs on imported goods and kicking men out of women's sports.
Chris Wright is a 'climate denier', screamed the headlines. Trump's Energy Secretary pick is certainly sceptical about the 'climate crisis', says Tilak Doshi. But that's because he wants to lift 7bn people out of poverty.
Rishi Sunak has reimposed the ban on fracking lifted by Liz Truss, in his first major shift away from her policy agenda. He also hinted he would bring back the ban on onshore wind farms.
The energy crisis is a crisis largely of our own making, brought to a head by the Russian invasion. But is fracking the answer its proponents claim, asks David Hansard.
The General Secretary of the GMB trade union, Gary Smith, has said the Left needs to shake off its "bourgeois environmentalism" and make the case for fracking and the building of new nuclear power stations.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has lifted the fracking ban, arguing that tolerating the risks associated with it is now in the national interest, given the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
Liz Truss is to lift a ban on fracking, with the first drilling licences in nearly three years expected to be issued as early as next week. But unless the energy is prioritised for the UK it won't touch prices.
A senior Government source has told the Telegraph that one fracking company reckons it could get some energy into the market by next winter if it’s allowed to get cracking straight away.
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