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A LEADING environmental campaigner told an anti-fracking rally at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, yesterday that unconventional gas extraction could be “killed off forever this week.”
Friends of the Earth Scotland director Dr Richard Dixon called on SNP Holyrood energy minister Fergus Ewing to announce a moratorium in Scotland in a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday — whatever the outcome of today’s vote in the Commons.
“Fergus Ewing will either lock us into the wrong things or he’ll give us a moratorium — which isn’t a ban but it’s a step forward,” Dr Dixon told demonstrators.
Hundreds had gathered outside the Grangemouth petrochemicals refinery yesterday with a message for rapacious oil giant Ineos to “frack off!”
The company plans a huge fracking operation in central Scotland around its base at the refinery.
“I don’t want to have to fight 30-plus fracking applications from Ineos, I want to kill this at a political level — and we can win it this week,” said Dr Dixon.
