Jess Phillips

Labour MP for Birmingham, Yardley

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Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) to Extract Shale Gas

Parliament has voted on whether hydraulic fracturing (fracking) should be permitted at all, where it should be permitted, and how such operations ought be regulated.

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Jess Phillips voted a mixture of for and against greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas

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Major votes

  • On 19 Oct 2022: Jess Phillips voted yes on Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill Show vote
  • On 16 Dec 2015: Jess Phillips voted against greater restrictions on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas in National Parks, the Broads, areas of outstanding natural beauty, World Heritage sites, and near points where water is abstracted for domestic and food production purposes. Show vote

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