Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell has hit out at Ineos's decision to challenge the fracking ban in Scotland.

The petrochemicals firm revealed earlier this week it will challenge the decision which bans onshore unconventional oil and gas extraction in the country.

The company said it believes "very serious errors" were made within the decision-making process, including a failure to adhere to proper statutory process and a misuse of Ministerial power.


However, Mr Ruskell said the firm should accept they lost the democratic debate, stating it isn't the first time a big business has "thrown their toys out of the pram".

"This is a predictable and desperate attempt by an industry sinking under public protest in England to try and salvage the last drop of commercial benefit in Scotland," he said.

"Scotland doesn't want or need fracking and Ineos should accept they lost the democratic debate in the Scottish Parliament, the evidence was there to ban fracking and that is what Holyrood has done.

"This isn't the first time that big business has thrown their toys out of the pram when they don't get their own way. This and the recent challenge on minimum pricing shows just how little corporations care for Scotland's environmental and social wellbeing."

(LM)