Give us a fracking break!
Discussion
Perhaps Vlad will feel his oats and annex us after the independence vote! 
One of the incentives that keeps being mentions with fracking is that it will create between 10,000 and 70,000 new jobs.
Unless these new jobs are ring fenced for UK residents, it won't have an effect on the unemployment figures but I can't see our Government doing that.
Interestingly, I discovered today that fracking is banned in France.
Does anyone know the facts behind this?
Unless these new jobs are ring fenced for UK residents, it won't have an effect on the unemployment figures but I can't see our Government doing that.
Interestingly, I discovered today that fracking is banned in France.
Does anyone know the facts behind this?
longshot said:
One of the incentives that keeps being mentions with fracking is that it will create between 10,000 and 70,000 new jobs.
Unless these new jobs are ring fenced for UK residents, it won't have an effect on the unemployment figures but I can't see our Government doing that.
Interestingly, I discovered today that fracking is banned in France.
Does anyone know the facts behind this?
Not sure they need it given their propensity for nuclear?Unless these new jobs are ring fenced for UK residents, it won't have an effect on the unemployment figures but I can't see our Government doing that.
Interestingly, I discovered today that fracking is banned in France.
Does anyone know the facts behind this?
The French are against Fracking because having invested heavily in nuclear over the past couple of decades the last thing they want is the rest of Europe finding a cheap source of fuel meaning nobody will want to buy French electricity.
The French ban and negativity towards Fracking is entirely about protecting their investment, something Caroline Lucas and the Greens never seems to mention when they hold the French up as a beacon of environmental responsibility. I often wonder how many Green Party supporters are aware that there are several French nuclear reactors including the largest in Western Europe, within a large radioactive clouds distance of their constituency?
The French ban and negativity towards Fracking is entirely about protecting their investment, something Caroline Lucas and the Greens never seems to mention when they hold the French up as a beacon of environmental responsibility. I often wonder how many Green Party supporters are aware that there are several French nuclear reactors including the largest in Western Europe, within a large radioactive clouds distance of their constituency?
jurbie said:
The French are against Fracking because having invested heavily in nuclear over the past couple of decades the last thing they want is the rest of Europe finding a cheap source of fuel meaning nobody will want to buy French electricity.
The French ban and negativity towards Fracking is entirely about protecting their investment, something Caroline Lucas and the Greens never seems to mention when they hold the French up as a beacon of environmental responsibility. I often wonder how many Green Party supporters are aware that there are several French nuclear reactors including the largest in Western Europe, within a large radioactive clouds distance of their constituency?
Probably the same amount that realize that the French and British National Grids are connected together and they are hooked up to a grid, that is, in part atleast, powered by newkleer energy.The French ban and negativity towards Fracking is entirely about protecting their investment, something Caroline Lucas and the Greens never seems to mention when they hold the French up as a beacon of environmental responsibility. I often wonder how many Green Party supporters are aware that there are several French nuclear reactors including the largest in Western Europe, within a large radioactive clouds distance of their constituency?
I'm all for it so long as fracking doesn't take place within 10 miles of where I live.
If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
It should really be confined to the North of England & perhaps Suffolk, where people care much less about appearances.
Also, once fracking starts you can pretty much guarantee that the price of petrol will plummet, so it's all good!
If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
It should really be confined to the North of England & perhaps Suffolk, where people care much less about appearances.
Also, once fracking starts you can pretty much guarantee that the price of petrol will plummet, so it's all good!
zygalski said:
I'm all for it so long as fracking doesn't take place within 10 miles of where I live.
If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
It should really be confined to the North of England & perhaps Suffolk, where people care much less about appearances.
Also, once fracking starts you can pretty much guarantee that the price of petrol will plummet, so it's all good!
We're talking about a well head, not open-cast mining.If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
It should really be confined to the North of England & perhaps Suffolk, where people care much less about appearances.
Also, once fracking starts you can pretty much guarantee that the price of petrol will plummet, so it's all good!
zygalski said:
I'm all for it so long as fracking doesn't take place within 10 miles of where I live.
If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
If everybody was like minded and fracking could only take place at least 10 miles from where they live - there wouldn't be many places to drill.If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
I can't think of anywhere perhaps except the northern highlands of Scotland where you could place a fracking site and have nobody living within a 10 mile radius - problem is - there is little to no shale gas in the northern highlands.
zygalski said:
I'm all for it so long as fracking doesn't take place within 10 miles of where I live.
If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
It should really be confined to the North of England & perhaps Suffolk, where people care much less about appearances.
Also, once fracking starts you can pretty much guarantee that the price of petrol will plummet, so it's all good!
If everyone was as like minded as you there wouldn't be any fracking within 10 miles of the UK coast line.If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
It should really be confined to the North of England & perhaps Suffolk, where people care much less about appearances.
Also, once fracking starts you can pretty much guarantee that the price of petrol will plummet, so it's all good!
London424 said:
Reducing tax from 62% to 30% doesn't sound too bad to me.
I'd rather 30% of profit, rather than subsidising green energy projects. In turn, you would expect energy bills to go down as well.
Who expects energy prices to go down? I'd rather 30% of profit, rather than subsidising green energy projects. In turn, you would expect energy bills to go down as well.
They could find huge reserves right under our feet tonnes of the stuff it won't change the price it will just make them more money!
zygalski said:
I'm all for it so long as fracking doesn't take place within 10 miles of where I live.
If more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
I'm of a similar viewIf more people were like-minded then the UK wouldn't face the current energy crisis.
But replace 10 miles with 100 meters
Providing they give me a hotel for the duration of the frack job which is a noisy affair due to the few thousand horsepower pumps they use.
I don't fancy trying to sleep with half a dozen V12s screaming away at full throttle
Once the well is running pah couldn't give a fook
And i say this as someone with a private water well
McWigglebum4th said:
And i say this as someone with a private water well
Wooooo.... get you! Very hanky-up-cuff. 
Seriously, I completely agree your sentiments, I'd love to see it here in te South Downs National Park. I've been told fracking would result in open pits of poisonous fluids evaporating into the air... does anyone seriously believe the environmental legislation in the county would ever allow such a thing?
And we're told they'll be up to 600 poisons and chemicals used in the process. What the fuch is "up to" supposed mean? I'd want to know exactly how many and what they are, my guess is it's probably not more than 6 and they're all relatively harmless.
PS I would tend to ignore Zygalski, he's little more than a troll IIRC.
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