{"id":5073,"date":"2015-01-30T19:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2015-01-30T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:38:30","slug":"flustered-liz-truss-blames-civil-servants-for-redacted-fracking-report-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5073","title":{"rendered":"Flustered Liz Truss Blames Civil Servants for Redacted Fracking Report Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2015\/01\/30\/flustered-liz-truss-blames-civil-servants-redacted-fracking-report-fiasco\" target=\"_blank\">Flustered Liz Truss Blames Civil Servants for Redacted Fracking Report Fiasco<\/a><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Liz Truss, the environment secretary, turned on her own department yesterday as the Tory government came under increasing criticism for its heavy-handed redactions to a controversial report about\u00a0fracking.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debates\/?id=2015-01-29a.992.5&amp;m=40560#g993.2\" target=\"_blank\">Truss, a Conservative member of the Cabinet, told<\/a>the House of Commons there are \u201cno plans\u201d for the release of an unredacted version of the incedury Shale Gas: Rural Economy Impacts report and blamed her own officials at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\u00a0(Defra).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She complained that Defra should never have produced the report. \u201cThe economic impact of fracking is a matter for the Department for Energy and Climate Change (<span class=\"caps\">DECC<\/span>),\u201d she argued. She said the report \u201cwas not analytically robust and was not signed off by\u00a0Ministers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This echoes statements made by Amber Rudd, the Under Secretary of State at\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">DECC<\/span>, on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2015\/01\/27\/mps-overwhelming-reject-moratorium-fracking\">during the Infrastructure Bill debate<\/a>. The Tory told\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">MP<\/span>s that the report was prepared by a junior member in another department \u201cand it was not appropriate for them to have done\u00a0so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Labour were quick to attack the government. Maria Eagle, shadow environment secretary, said: \u201cMinisters have responsibility for what is done in their Department. The report has been so heavily redacted that even the name of its author has been\u00a0removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flustered Liz Truss Blames Civil Servants for Redacted Fracking Report Fiasco Liz Truss, the environment secretary, turned on her own department yesterday as the Tory government came under increasing criticism for its heavy-handed redactions to a controversial report about\u00a0fracking. Truss, a Conservative member of the Cabinet, toldthe House of Commons there are \u201cno plans\u201d for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3064,3062,3061,331,379,412,3063],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-civil-servants","tag-decc","tag-department-for-energy-and-climate-change","tag-fracking","tag-government","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-labour-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}