Rishi Sunak to reinstate fracking ban as he touts ambition for 'more renewables'

Michael Holder
clock • 6 min read
 Sunak held his first cabinet meeting as PM today | Credit: Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street
Image:

Sunak held his first cabinet meeting as PM today | Credit: Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street

New PM signals return to commitments in 2019 Conservative manifesto including on fracking, green farming subsidy reform, and nature protection, but remains tight-lipped on onshore wind

Rishi Sunak today signalled that he intends to reinstate the ban on fracking in England, as the new Prime Minister touted the importance of "more renewables, more offshore wind and indeed more nuclear"...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Politics

Drilling into decline: The flawed logic of Kemi Badenoch's oil gamble

Drilling into decline: The flawed logic of Kemi Badenoch's oil gamble

The Conservative leader's pledge to 'get all of our gas out of the North Sea' appears designed more for the politics of opposition than the realities of government, as it crumbles under scrutiny, writes Eliot Whittington from the Cambridge Institute for...

Eliot Whittington, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
clock 08 September 2025 • 4 min read
Emma Reynolds named new Environment Secretary in surprise reshuffle

Emma Reynolds named new Environment Secretary in surprise reshuffle

Keir Starmer revamps top team following Angela Rayner's resignation as Deputy PM, with Steve Reed leaving Defra to become Housing and Communities Secretary

Michael Holder
clock 05 September 2025 • 3 min read
Global Briefing: Ørsted sues Trump White House for halting $1.5bn US offshore wind project

Global Briefing: Ørsted sues Trump White House for halting $1.5bn US offshore wind project

Plus: Shell scraps its Rotterdam biofuels project, Spain has a new climate emergency plan, and India's state-run coal miner eyes 5GW of renewable power projects, in our roundup of all the top global green business stories this week

clock 05 September 2025 • 10 min read