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Melissa Jones: /* 2016 fracking ban announcement */

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2016 fracking ban announcement

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Melissa Jones: /* Industry response */

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 ==Stance on fracking==
 ===2016 fracking ban announcement===
-In September 2016, shadow energy and climate secretary [[Barry Gardiner]] announced that a future Labour government would impose a national ban on fracking. The move was welcomed by green campaigners and local resident groups threatened by the industry. <ref> Adam Vaughan, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/26/fracking-no-shale-gas-wells-to-be-drilled-in-uk-this-year Labour government would ban fracking in UK], ''The Guardian'', 26 September 2016, accessed 24 October 2016. </ref>
+In September 2016, shadow energy and climate secretary [[Barry Gardiner]] announced that a future Labour government would impose a national ban on fracking, the controversial method of extracting gas from rocks. The move was widely welcomed by green campaigners and local resident groups threatened by the industry across the UK. <ref> Adam Vaughan, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/26/fracking-no-shale-gas-wells-to-be-drilled-in-uk-this-year Labour government would ban fracking in UK], ''The Guardian'', 26 September 2016, accessed 24 October 2016. </ref>
 The party's position had previously been inconsistent or unclear. In February 2015, a majority of Labour MPs abstained from a vote on an amendment for a moratorium on fracking, recommended by the [[Environmental Audit Committee]]. The amendment was not approved and voted down by 302 votes to 52 against a moratorium.<ref>  [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30993915 Fracking moratorium rejected by MPs], ''BBC News'', 26 January 2015, accessed 15 September 2016</ref> Labour did table a series of other amendments on the conditions that should be met before shale gas exploration can take place, but they were voted down in the [[House of Lords]].<ref> Damian Carrington, [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/12/fracking-will-be-allowed-under-national-parks Fracking will be allowed under national parks, UK decides], ''The Guardian'', 12 February 2015, accessed 27 October 2016.</ref>

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 :“Instead of bending the knee to a few corporations who profit from extracting fossil fuels from the ground, we need to change course now. It’s the next generation and the world’s poorest who will pay the price if this Conservative government continues to put the interests of a few polluters ahead of people.” <ref>Mikey Smith, [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-demands-boris-johnson-18796746 Jeremy Corbyn demands Boris Johnson stop 'bending the knee' and ban fracking], ''The Mirror'', 29 July 2019, accessed 30 July 2019 </ref>
-Corbyn also commented that Johnson's current short-term focus on climate and fracking and his close ties with US president [[Donald Trump]] were a disaster risk for the planet. “...unless there is a real intervention by government on fracking, on measurements of emissions on aircraft and shipping … then we are deluding ourselves that we are actually adhering to climate change targets.
+Corbyn also commented that Johnson's current short-term focus on climate and fracking and his close ties with US president [[Donald Trump]] were a disaster risk for the planet.
 :“Since he [Johnson] has no plans to do anything to protect it and is closely aligned with Donald Trump who claims that the Paris climate change accords are a danger to the American economy and that is a kind of signal to other industrial economies … well your short-term economic interests come ahead of the longer-term environmental issues.” <ref> Nazia Parveen, [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/corbyn-johnson-trump-relationship-disaster-environment Johnson and Trump's close ties risk disaster for planet], The Guardian, 30 July 2019, accessed same day </ref>

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	:“Instead of bending the knee to a few corporations who profit from extracting fossil fuels from the ground, we need to change course now. It’s the next generation and the world’s poorest who will pay the price if this Conservative government continues to put the interests of a few polluters ahead of people.” <ref>Mikey Smith, [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-demands-boris-johnson-18796746 Jeremy Corbyn demands Boris Johnson stop 'bending the knee' and ban fracking], ''The Mirror'', 29 July 2019, accessed 30 July 2019 </ref>		:“Instead of bending the knee to a few corporations who profit from extracting fossil fuels from the ground, we need to change course now. It’s the next generation and the world’s poorest who will pay the price if this Conservative government continues to put the interests of a few polluters ahead of people.” <ref>Mikey Smith, [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-demands-boris-johnson-18796746 Jeremy Corbyn demands Boris Johnson stop 'bending the knee' and ban fracking], ''The Mirror'', 29 July 2019, accessed 30 July 2019 </ref>
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		+	Corbyn also commented that Johnson's current short-term focus on climate and fracking and his close ties with US president [[Donald Trump]] were a disaster risk for the planet. “...unless there is a real intervention by government on fracking, on measurements of emissions on aircraft and shipping … then we are deluding ourselves that we are actually adhering to climate change targets.
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		+	:“Since he [Johnson] has no plans to do anything to protect it and is closely aligned with Donald Trump who claims that the Paris climate change accords are a danger to the American economy and that is a kind of signal to other industrial economies … well your short-term economic interests come ahead of the longer-term environmental issues.” <ref> Nazia Parveen, [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/30/corbyn-johnson-trump-relationship-disaster-environment Johnson and Trump's close ties risk disaster for planet], The Guardian, 30 July 2019, accessed same day </ref>

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 *[[New Labour: Special Advisers]]
 *[[Donations from the Big Four under the Coalition Government]]
-*[[Fracking Spads]] circa 2015-16
+*[[Fracking Spads]] circa 2013-15
 ==Notes==

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 ==Resources==
-See: [[Fracking Spads]]
 *[[New Labour: Donors]]
 *[[New Labour: Special Advisers]]
 *[[Donations from the Big Four under the Coalition Government]]
 ==Notes==

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	:“I am very disappointed that Labour appear to favour continued and increasing levels of gas imports by ship from the Middle East, Africa or the United States or by pipeline from Russia rather than developing a well-regulated job creating UK shale gas industry.		:“I am very disappointed that Labour appear to favour continued and increasing levels of gas imports by ship from the Middle East, Africa or the United States or by pipeline from Russia rather than developing a well-regulated job creating UK shale gas industry.
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		+	UKOOG, the trade lobby group for the UK onshore oil and gas industry, released a press statement saying Labour 'can't have it both ways - we either offshore our emissions or back UK industry'
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		+	:"We will still need natural gas in 2050. It's better that we source it from home, creating fewer emissions and more UK jobs and investment, than rely on the likes of Qatar, Russia and the US to meet our demand." <ref> [http://www.ukoog.org.uk/about-ukoog/press-releases/234-labour-can-t-have-it-both-ways 'Labour can't have it both ways - we either offshore our emissions or back UK industry], UKOOG press release, 30 July 2019, accessed same day. </ref>

	==Political communications==		==Political communications==

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 [[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right| 30 July 2019 via Twitter]] In July 2019, the [[Labour Party]] released its analysis showing that fracking, if it goes ahead in Britain, would stop the country reaching a net zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.
-On 30 July Corbyn visited campaigners protesting outside [[Cuadrilla]]’s shale gas site near Blackpool and repeated his call for the government and incoming PM [[Boris Johnson]]) to ban fracking:
+On 30 July leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]] visited campaigners protesting outside [[Cuadrilla]]’s shale gas site near Blackpool and repeated his call for the government and incoming PM [[Boris Johnson]]) to ban fracking:
 :“We need urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, and that means the prime minister immediately banning fracking once and for all.

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 ===2019===
-[[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right]] In July 2019, the [[Labour Party]] released its analysis showing that fracking, if it goes ahead in Britain, would stop the country reaching a net zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.
+[[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right| 30 July 2019 via Twitter]] In July 2019, the [[Labour Party]] released its analysis showing that fracking, if it goes ahead in Britain, would stop the country reaching a net zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.
 On 30 July Corbyn visited campaigners protesting outside [[Cuadrilla]]’s shale gas site near Blackpool and repeated his call for the government and incoming PM [[Boris Johnson]]) to ban fracking:

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 ====Industry response====
-In response, the fracking industry resorted to its oft-cited argument of the need for Britain to stop relying on gas imports. Cuadrilla’s chief executive, [[Francis Egan]] said:
+In response, the fracking industry resorted to its oft-cited argument of the need for Britain to develop homegrown gas and stop relying on gas imports, including from places such as Qatar and Russia. Cuadrilla’s chief executive, [[Francis Egan]] said:
 :“I am very disappointed that Labour appear to favour continued and increasing levels of gas imports by ship from the Middle East, Africa or the United States or by pipeline from Russia rather than developing a well-regulated job creating UK shale gas industry.

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 ==Political communications==
-The first year of the [[Gordon Brown|Gordon Brown's]] term as Prime Minister coincided with a 16% rise in the cost of government advertising, marketing and publicity. Government advertising attracted particular controversy in 2009, when the Home Office, according to a Select Committee on Communications report, "abused the marketing funds by funding newspapers [sic.] advertisements on police during the local elections “purdah” period, mirroring the Labour Party’s own campaigning."<ref name="GC"> Government Communication [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldcomuni/7/7.pdf House of Lords: Select Committee on Communication], accessed 26 January 2009</ref>
+===Brown era===
 The report said there had also been an historic trend of COI advertising strangely rising just before an expected general election.<ref name="GC"/>