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Liz Truss lifts fracking ban and pushes domestic energy to tackle bills crisis

The move will be met with strong opposition from local campaigners and environmentalists.

The Independent UK

Energy bills plan explained: What £2,500 cap means and how we'll all be paying it back

Together with an Energy Bills Support Scheme of £400, today's announcement means the average bill will be £2,100 over the next year. Here's what it means, why fracking is restarting - and how it's a bill for your grandchildren

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss to freeze energy bills at £2,500 a year average, funded by borrowing

PM announces £150bn scheme and resumption of fracking as she pledges to tackle root causes of crisis

The Guardian - UK

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What are the government’s fracking plans? Rishi Sunak reinstates ban

The ban on shale gas fracking in England has been restored by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs.

Evening Standard

How to invest in natural gas

Natural gas has featured regularly in the news of late, with the wholesale price having more than doubled in 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The UK government has also reopened the controversial debate on fracking as a way of reducing natural gas imports.

Evening Standard

Minister defends Liz Truss plan to lift fracking ban

A Cabinet minister has defended controversial plans to lift the ban on fracking as part of new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s emergency support package on energy bills.

Evening Standard

Lifting of fracking ban not miracle solution, minister admits

Communities secretary defends decision not to extend windfall tax as Liz Truss unveils support package

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What time is Liz Truss announcing her plan for energy bills today?

The new Prime Minister is also expected to announce an end to the fracking ban

Wales Online

$Liz Truss’s government denies abandoning climate targets despite plan to legalise fracking$

Liz Truss’s government denies abandoning climate targets despite plan to legalise fracking

First act of new prime minister is to lift the ban on the controversial process

The Independent UK

ECB hikes interest rates by record 75bp and slashes growth forecasts – as it happened

Christine Lagarde warns that eurozone economic growth is weakening, but EBC plumps for record increase in borrowing costs to curb inflation

The Guardian - UK

$Nicola Sturgeon geared for clash with PM over new fracking and nuclear plans$

Nicola Sturgeon geared for clash with PM over new fracking and nuclear plans

SCOTTISH Energy Secretary Michael Matheson has said that the Scottish Government does not plan to issue any licences to allow fracking to take…

The National (Scotland)

$Fury as Liz Truss to allow fracking today despite her own Chancellor saying it won't work$

Fury as Liz Truss to allow fracking today despite her own Chancellor saying it won't work

New Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to lift the ban on fracking as part of her energy bills plan - despite Kwasi Kwarteng saying in March that it wouldn't solve the crisis

Daily Mirror

$Truss to lift ban on fracking under plan to increase UK’s energy supply$

Truss to lift ban on fracking under plan to increase UK’s energy supply

New PM will resume extraction of shale gas in places where it is opposed by local communities

The Independent UK

$Ban fracking motions passed at NT Labor Conference show 'disconnect' in party$

Ban fracking motions passed at NT Labor Conference show 'disconnect' in party

The future of the oil and gas industry has been thrown into disarray after a string of submissions ranging from a complete ban on fracking to prohibiting subsidies — were passed without dissent at an NT Labor Conference.

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The Independent UK

Liz Truss ‘to ditch fracking ban’ as she reveals fresh cost-of-living support

The new premier is expected to tell MPs on Thursday that domestic bills will be frozen at around £2,500.

The Guardian - UK

PM expected to reverse fracking ban as campaigners call for review’s release

BEIS has been sitting on report delivered in early July into possible effect of fracking in UK

Wales Online

Downing Street hints fracking ban could be lifted after Liz Truss becomes new Prime Minister

The fracking ban was imposed in England in 2019

The Independent UK

Downing Street hints fracking ban could be lifted in energy bills package

The suggestion came as advisers warned that the UK’s gas reserves are too small to make a difference to consumer energy bills.

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Daily Mirror

Liz Truss poised to axe ban on fracking in energy bills plan - breaching Tory manifesto

Downing Street hinted that the new Prime Minister could tear up a 2019 Tory manifesto commitment to prohibit shale gas extraction as the Government scrambles to help households with spiralling bills

Wales Online

Busy first day hints at six plans Liz Truss Government has in pipeline for UK

Human rights and fracking law reforms plus raft of measures to tackle the energy crisis are on the cards

The Guardian - AU

NT Labor members at odds with government after call to ban fracking in Beetaloo Basin

Northern Territory party conference passes string of motions urging a ban on fracking and an end to gas industry subsidies

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss's energy proposals 'dangerously short-sighted', SNP warn

LIZ Truss’s proposals to pursue more nuclear power and allow fracking are “negligently wrong-headed and dangerously short-sighted”,…

The National (Scotland)

Environmentalists vow to step up protests after PM candidates both back fracking

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have vowed to step up protests following the appointment of the new prime minister, over fears the pledges of Cop26 are…

The Guardian - UK

Unions call for Liz Truss to ‘come clean’ over plans to change workers’ rights

Frontrunner to become next PM reportedly considering review of protections including 48-hour working week

The Independent UK

Liz Truss ‘to lift fracking ban within days of becoming leader to boost UK energy supplies’

With only days left until the winner of the Tory leadership race is announced, Ms Truss remains the overwhelming favourite to succeed Boris Johnson.

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