Fracking reality - The Texan experience translated in UK terms.

If you have even the slightest doubt as to just how life would be affected if fracking were to come to a location near you take just 5 minutes to read the following article and maybe a further 9 minutes to watch the video ( always assuming you can put up with the front end advertising for car hire ).

Real life testimony from residents of Ponder in Texas and commentary on just how such horrors are likely to affect the UK  ( and perhaps France in due course ).

Read the article and watch the video by clicking this link:http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/14/fracking-hell-live-next-shale-gas-well-texas-us

UK - 'Press ahead with fracking' - Climate change advisory body.

'Britain should press ahead with fracking, the chairman of the Government's climate change advisory body said yesterday.

Lord Deben dismissed claims by Green Groups that fracking would cause significant damage to the environment, adding that Britain needed to drill shale wells to reduce reliance on foreign imports of fossil fuel'. 

If you subscribe to Rupert Murdoch's pay wall on-line ( we don't ) then you may read the full article here: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article3945591.ece

We do wonder just how a so called Climate Change Advisory body could possibly be proposing the continued use of fossil fuels in the first place of course. Needless to say, much of the gas produced will not be for home consumption and will simply be sold to the highest international bidder. Lower fuel/utility bills? Right.

UK ( again ) - Commentary from Cuadrilla

Read in what low regard those appointed to frack up large chunks of the UK hold the environment and ipso facto it's citizens by clicking the following link...................

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=776137165745644&set=a.450730781619619.127432.412063865486311&type=1&theater&notif_t=photo_reply

UK - Fracking up Cheshire - BBC report

Here we go..............Dart Energy suggest that 'fracking opponents will be pushed aside'. Read the BBC report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25268627

And then there is the question of Wind Turbines.......................

Slightly off topic - or is it....................................

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/06/wind-turbines-landscape-billionaires-energy-policy

Energy Policy - what Energy Policy?

For those concerned about the French landscape and local proposals the following site provides alarming information:  http://www.environnement-juste.org/Presse/communiques/Communique%20de%20presse%20du%2023%20aout%202013.pdf

Fracking poses risk to UK farm animals and food safety..................

And soon it will be too late....................

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2082668/fracking_poses_risk_to_uk_farm_animals_and_food_safety_experts_warn.html

World Fossil Fuel Reserves growing - BUT.....

Interesting interactive pages here from data collated by Oil Change International setting out just why, in spite of growing reserves we simply should strive to leave them in the ground.

Read and interact with the article here:http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/26/why-fossil-fuel-reserves-growing-oil-carbon