England to 'reap benefits' from fracking after SNP announces Scottish ban
Scotland will miss out on billions of pounds and thousands of jobs from fracking while England “reaps the benefits”, a petrochemical giant has said after SNP ministers banned the practice north of the Border. Paul Wheelhouse, the Scottish Energy Minister, told MSPs that the controversial shale gas extraction technique “cannot and will not take place in Scotland.” In a statement at Holyrood, he said an existing moratorium on fracking, which has been in place since 2015, would
