After graduating in 1996, Liz Truss worked for Shell as a commercial manager.
In a 2013 #bbcqt, just before she became Environment Secretary, Truss dismissed clean renewable energy as “extremely expensive” and said it was damaging the economy.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03…
In a 2013 #bbcqt, just before she became Environment Secretary, Truss dismissed clean renewable energy as “extremely expensive” and said it was damaging the economy.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03…
“We do need to look at the green taxes because at the moment they are incentivising particular forms of energy that are extremely expensive. I would like to see the rolling back of green taxes because it is wrong that we are implementing green taxes faster than other countries."
Before she became Environment Minister in 2014, free-market fundamentalist Liz Truss also said on BBC Question Time that #fracking would benefit people living nearby. “We need to make sure shale gas is being exploited in this country, which will benefit local communities." 
In her first statement as Environment Secretary, she said: “I look forward to tackling the important issues facing our rural communities including championing British food, protecting people from flooding & improving the environment.” She didn't mention her support for fracking.
In 2009, as deputy director of the free-market thinktank Reform, Truss lied when she said energy infrastructure in Britain was being damaged by politicians' obsession with green technology: “Vast amounts of taxpayers' money are being spent subsidising uneconomic activity."
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