Potential fracking

bigadaj

ConfusedofYorkshire wrote: »

It's the fires coming out the taps and the earth tremors I'm more bothered about.....

If you do a little more research you'll see the fallacy if that.

I'm not an apologist for the oil companies by any means, though I do have experience of drilling and geological impacts.

Fires out of taps are something that occurs within natural ground in Pennsylvania and Texas which are the examples given, they aren't relevant to the uk as who is actually off grid in Britain. My parents live nearly a quarter of a mile from their nearest neighbour and whilst they do have a well all their potable water is piped from the mains supply. We might be able to light that well as they are in coal measures so I'll give it a go the next time I visit. Fortunately regulation is far better in teh uk than the us and the odd example where fracking has contributed to a farmers tap lighting is almost purely due to poor well construction rather than the fracking itself, a bit like bp and macondo.

Simailrly drilling induced earthquakes are unlikely, rare and very minor, a new water dam has a higher risk.

We obviously need to be paranoid about fracking because it's scary, forget about teh billions being wasted on wind and solar subsidies, particulalry the latter as that money is generally going to nice pensioners who have been hit by low savings rates. I'd prefer not to pay that through my energy bills but don't have a say.

Davesnave

bigadaj wrote: »

We obviously need to be paranoid about fracking because it's scary, forget about teh billions being wasted on wind and solar subsidies, particulalry the latter as that money is generally going to nice pensioners who have been hit by low savings rates. I'd prefer not to pay that through my energy bills but don't have a say.

Clearly some pensioners have solar panels, though in my village it's the ones still in council bungalows who have the panels, while those who bought have been conservative in their take up. i.e. nil to date

The council are the ones reaping the biggest reward, having had the foresight to install them.