Shale Gas - 16th January 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Shale Gas.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-01-16/debates/14011656000016/ShaleGas

Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) (Green)

On Tuesday the Prime Minister said people objecting to shale gas on climate grounds are irrational, yet climate scientist experts and investors all warn that the vast majority of existing fossil fuel reserves must remain underground—they are unburnable if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change—and just today we hear of the BP report that shale gas will not help cut emissions and that essentially fuel switching does not make a difference as coal just gets exported and is emitted elsewhere. In the light of that, will the Minister tell us whether he agrees with the Prime Minister: does he think climate scientists are irrational as well?

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