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Two fingers to Hamish -400 TRILLION cubic feet of Gas found - By Blackpool!
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OptionARMAGEDDON wrote: »http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8779981/Cuadrilla-Resources-huge-gas-find-in-Blackpool-could-create-5600-jobs.html
Looks as if taxation of this new resource could save our bacon. I wonder how many trillion pounds worth of gas this is worth?
With the Jocks reserves of the black gold now depleted, its time to allow Scotland to declare its independence... Whilst we tap into our own resources
Do you know how much damage that is going to do to the environment?
Do you know that fracking wrecks the water table?
..... and has caused earth quakes?What do we do when we fall? We get up, dust ourselves off and start walking in the right direction again. Perhaps when we fall, it is easy to forget there are people along the way who help us stand and walk with us as we get back on track.0 -
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As for Blackpool, many more mature people will remember what a fantastic holidays they had there in years gone by, and will look on it with fond memories of holidays with their parents maybe.
It's still OK for a day by the sea, but trying to find a meal that isn't fried, is REALLY difficult.
Then again, .... a day by the seaside is exactly that, and shouldn't be judged by the number of drinking establishments and casino's etc. It's like going on a holiday to Spain, and eating in chippies, drinking British ale, and lying on the beach doing nothing.
You could lie on a beach doing nothing in Libya cheaper than Spain.
Why travel to Blackpool, if you really want something different?0 -
Do you know how much damage that is going to do to the environment?
Do you know that fracking wrecks the water table?
..... and has caused earth quakes?
Do you know how many sacrifices are going to have to be made, in order to keep society afloat?
There will be nobody to appreciate a green world when the human race is extinct.
The human race is a temporary blip in the planets evolution, and it will still be spinning in orbit long after we've gone, erasing all traces.0 -
I see the BBC immediately switched into 'global warming' mode when the news was announced. They're certainly 'Green' at the Beeb - the rapid response team, led by Richard 'Catastrophe' Black, was recycling the litany of shale oil/gas myths in an instant.
If the hippies get their way, we'll still be able to freeze and starve to death, the gas will remain untouched and Blackpool will be left to continue its hideous decline.
There are environmental issues from shale gas extraction though. Are the BBC not allowed to report on that then?
Perhaps you should submit a diktat to them of what they're allowed to report?0 -
There are environmental issues from shale gas extraction though. Are the BBC not allowed to report on that then?
Perhaps you should submit a diktat to them of what they're allowed to report?
Good idea. It would be: "report the facts - impartially". A concept the BBC lost any understanding of 20 years ago, when it began to become a wholly owned subsidiary of the ecoloon movement.0 -
Yeah I couldn't fail to notice how they reported this alongside environment warnings. It's not like they actually bother to practice what they preach. This story from there website is a case in point ,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/fast_track/9590894.stm
I notice at the beginning of the VT they talk as if everyone spends their time jetting around and its normal to be jet lagged.0 -
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Why would it matter if it was impartial? You've already made your mind up it seems.
It matters for the people like you, who don't bother with facts and just swallow whole the effluent pumped out by propagandists like Harrabin, Black and the rest of the BBC's eco hotsquad.
The BBC's handling of this story was a hoot. All they needed to do was report the factual information - not pepper it with 'sky is falling' scare points and then run a 'terrified of Brighton' piece from Bonkers Black right next to it.
Still, it was good to see former BBC journalist Robin Horbury blowing the whistle on them http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2011/09/frakking-off.html0 -
Fracking can have some seriously nasty side effects.
Fracking doesn't always have those nasty side effects.
I would hope our regulatory bodies would have better oversight than the Yanks in these things, but there is always a risk.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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