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According to a report by Jason Groves in the Daily Mail, Liz Truss may announce an end to the ban on fracking this week. During the leadership campaign she said she wanted to allow fracking, but only in areas where there was a clear public consensus in favour.
On the Today programme this morning Lord Deben, the Tory peer who chairs the Committee for Climate Change, said fracking was not a solution to the UK's energy problems. He explained:
The price of gas is not affected by the relatively small amount that we can get, in addition to the North Sea or indeed from fracking.
This is an international price and we would be paying the same price we got out of the fracked gas as we are for the gas we're using now.
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