Liz Truss, the frontrunner to win the Tory leadership contest, is expected to lift the fracking ban within days of becoming prime minister.She claims fracking will lower energy bills, provide energy security and help make the UK self-sufficient in gas. It can’t and it won’t.

She says her support for fracking depends on communities backing it too. Fracking has no social licence, so fracking firms are planning to offer households a 25% cut in their energy bills and give communities £100,000 if they back fracking in their local area.

“Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.”
Claud Cockburn

Local communities who’ve fought the filthy fracking industry for over a decade will be in the firing line yet again. We said no and we still say no. If fracking returns, so will we