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Fracking and the Infrastructure Bill

I was surprised given the Green Party's opposition to Fracking that Caroline Lucas did not vote against the Infrastructure Bill on Monday evening.

The point about the infrastructure bill is that although there was no specific vote as to whether or not to change the laws on trespass for Geothermal Energy and Fracking, there was an opportunity to oppose the bill as a whole.

The Bill did include good things like a cycling and walking strategy, but there were also things that one would have expected the Green's to oppose in addition to Fracking.

The final 3rd reading question can be seen being put here (7 hours 23 minutes and 56 seconds from the start of the video). No one was there who shouted no.

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