'Anybody... witnessing significant harm from fracking can sue their MP' – Jojo Mehta explains

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Jojo Mehta, founder of Frack Free Five Valleys, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about fracking. She says the recently-passed Infrastructure Act was intended to fast-track fracking among other things, ‘a grave concern.’ She wanted to get a report put together by the Concerned Health Professionals of New York, which details the risks and harms of fracking and was instrumental in New York banning fracking, in front of MPs. MPs have a code of conduct that requires them to act in the interest of the nation as a whole, and she says that the national interest is ‘the health and wellbeing of the land and the people’ so if they know in advance that fracking can bring harm to the UK and then vote for it, could be held liable if harm arises from it. The Infrastructure Act was ‘rushed through with unseemly haste’, but after her letter there was a flurry of amendments, some of which would have controlled fracking significantly, but the Lords then watered down the amendments by slipping in a definition of fracking that would be subject to any kind of safeguard was that involving more than 1,000 cubic metres of liquid – anything below that is not subject to any kind restriction, which she describes as ‘a huge get-out clause.’ She says that this is an enormously pro-fracking government, and that political will should not go to things that would damage land and people but to renewables instead. But because of the letter she has sent, anyone who witnesses significant harm from fracking can now sue their MP as they had prior notice of the risks and dangers it posed.

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