Fracking will never take place in Scotland despite Liz Truss support, pledges Michael Matheson
dailyrecord.co.ukUK Government support for fracking is a "smokescreen" to hide its failure to lower the cost of energy, an SNP minister has said.Michael Matheson told the Record the controversial method of extracting shale gas would not be approved for use in Scotland.
The Cabinet Secretary for Energy insisted the technique would make "no difference" on household fuel bills. Liz Truss pledged to end a moratorium on fracking in England shortly after she became Prime Minister last month.
But the embattled Tory leader has so failed to explain exactly how the policy would work and is already facing pressure from her own MPs to ditch it."Fracking is not part of our future energy mix," Matheson said in an interview at his office in the Scottish Parliament."It would have absolutely no impact on meeting our overall energy needs and in reducing the price of gas.
The wholesale price of gas is set on the international market and will make no difference to that whatsoever."The quantities are of such a small amount that it will make no meaningful impact to meeting our needs.
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