Truss: UK to cap domestic energy prices, end fracking ban
September 7, 2022
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Thursday that her government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left people and businesses across the U.K. facing a bleak winter.
She also said she will approve more North Sea oil drilling and lift a ban on fracking in a bid to increase the U.K.'s domestic energy supply.
"We are supporting this country through this winter and next and tackling the root causes of high prices so we are never in the same position again," Truss told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
Truss said t...
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