GREEN party leader Natalie Bennett warned yesterday that fracking giants could claim huge sums of taxpayers’ cash under the planned EU-US trade deal. 

Ms Bennett said plans for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would be a “disaster” for democracy, public services and the environment at a public meeting at the Unite union’s London headquarters. 

Forcing the government to approve fracking sites across Britain or cough up huge amounts of compensation to companies will be among its many consequences, she said.