Fracking Policy

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 1:31 pm on 9 October 2019.

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Photo of Mohammad Asghar Mohammad Asghar Conservative 1:31, 9 October 2019

Minister, according to the United States Energy Information Administration, nearly two thirds of reduction in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the past decade in the US can be attributed to fracking. The United Nations inter-governmental panel on climate change notes that fracking has increased and diversified the gas supply, allowing for a more extensive switching of power and heat production from coal to gas. They also affirm that this is an important reason for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Does the Minister agree, in light of the above, with these organisations that fracking results in fewer carbon emissions?