Labour plans new law to ban fracking permanently
The Labour government is planning to pass a new law that would ban fracking for shale gas permanently in England, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced.
At Labour's conference, Miliband said he wanted to legislate at the earliest opportunity and launch a national campaign against fracking in the meantime.
Fracking is currently only limited by a suspension on ministerial decisions to grant licences.
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What does "permanently" mean, in this case? Surely, at best, this means until we have a government that decides to overturn it. And I'm not even confident that that wouldn't be a subsequent Labour one.
I agree, this is using the creation of laws to campaign. It's the modern political disease in democracies all over the world.