UK’s Rishi Sunak Bans Fracking But Government Green Lights New Coal Production

Simon Constable
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
2 min readDec 16, 2022

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What the frack?

Britain’s approach to fossil fuels is nothing if not inconsistent.

Hot on the heels of re-banning hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) in the UK, British prime minister Rishi Sunak just cut a deal with the United States to import even more natural gas from America. Around 5 billion extra…

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