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Fracking will never take place in Scotland despite Liz Truss support, pledges Michael Matheson
14.10.2022 - 06:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
UK 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. If there is anything we need to do to reduce the cost of energy is to decarbonise our energy system and reduce our need to use oil and gas because of the way those prices are set.
"If we can get away from using fossil fuels we will be much more reliant on electricity - which is a market that we can control domestically."
Matheson insisted there would be no way for the UK Government to encourage fracking without Holyrood approval.
He added: "It's a planning matter and something that would come to Scottish ministers for licensing - and I have no plan to issue any licenses on fracking. We don't need it and we can see the pathway is renewables."
Asked why he thought Truss was supportive
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