Update on fracking
- 20 May 2013 20:19230090about time this was raised again as east kent has been in the limelight over this issue.
http://www.clairhawkins.org.uk/?p=1117 - 20 May 2013 21:13230098It's politicos like that has left us in the huge mess in terms of our unfolding energy crisis.
Note that she likes to quote greenpeace at every opportunity which explains the root cause of the problem.
Talk about parish pumps. - 20 May 2013 22:05230099philip
forget greenpeace and read the bit about ofgem in the link. - 20 May 2013 23:18230113Ofgem? Who are.....Oh! you mean Ofgem. Yes the quango who on their website proudly boast.....now wait for it.......who
are "Making a positive difference to energy consumers".
That Ofgem. Of course.
Shouldn't that read " Positively indifferent to those energy consumers who have seen their bills double heh, heh, heh."
As helpful as a chocolate fireguard on a moped or something like that.
Pay no attention to those fools, Howard. Whatever they say you can disregard as being as pointless as Daves' slogan "The greenest government" etc. More like the greenest Prime minister since John Major methinks.
Bills certainly will not drop even if fracking is undertaken or not. Over the next few years bills will definitely rise because of utopian low carbon economy nonsense to the tune of extra hundreds of pounds a year for the average consumer.
The point is that by producing gas from fracking it will likely have a profound effect on our GDP and mean that we won't be as reliant on other countries to supply fuel. Hopefully there will be enough to sell as well.
Sadly the restrictions imposed on fracking mean that I'm not to hopeful that widespread use of this fuel will manifest itself.
Under current restrictions if a leaf falls off a tree during the fracking process that particular field will be forced to shut down until it's considered "safe" to do so. - 20 May 2013 23:42230115Just spotted this:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/saloon-bar-politics-by-ukip-could-harm-britains-climate-change-credibility-and-drag-tories-to-right-on-environment-warns-minister-8624546.html
This helps to explain why our bills will go up and there will be power cuts in the not too distant future. - 27 August 2013 12:39242105discontent at the top on this.
as a side note the report says the u.s. consumers have made great savings on their energy bills but we are told that ours would not be cut.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10267009/Senior-ministerial-aides-hit-out-at-consequences-of-fracking.html - 27 August 2013 12:56242109" The Prime Minister earlier this month insisted that people across the country must accept fracking.
He said that fracking could result in cheaper energy bills for millions, tens of thousands of jobs and windfalls for communities. "
Who would not rather have it as;'should accept' and 'will result'?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 27 August 2013 14:05242113This is an interesting thread which I wish somebody had started last week as it explains an incident which I know now that I misunderstood at the time!
I went down to visit a friend in Sussex last week who took me to a place near a village called Balcombe where there was a demonstration against fracking..I didn't know what to say when he asked me if I was against fracking, as to the best of my knowledge I had never tried it, so I said that I was willing to give it a go.
He said it involved drilling and pumping a chemical fluid into a well at a high pressure which would shatter the rock strata and................ It all sounded rather dangerous to me so at that point I didn't stay to hear the rest and left rather hurriedly!
What must he have thought of me? - 2 March 2014 19:52261677i thought this issue had died a death locally.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/news/-activists-demand-fracking-ban-13544/ - 2 March 2014 20:32261682Of greater significance.........
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/02/oh-this-cant-be-good-britain-uninvestable-for-energy/ - 28 July 2014 09:20269927Bidding starts today so we can expect more controversy over the proposed sites.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28513036 - 28 July 2014 12:07269933Not in our neck of the woods.
Roger - 28 July 2014 14:42269950When this country has experienced it's first few blackouts it's then that people will be asking the question "Why oh why didn't we start fracking years ago and stop the obsession with building more windmills and useless solar arrays?".
By then, of course, it will be too late - the damage will have been done. The consequences are too painful to even think about. The City of London's position as a World financial centre will have been dealt a fatal blow. Other business and firms up and down the country will suffer losses which will put them out of business creating hundreds of thousands of unemployed.
Energy is the most important issue that faces us all over the next few years which one reason I won't be voting this time round.
The ridiculous position of the labour party is so potty on this issue that only a complete moron would fall for the ramblings of those who think that we can get through this by freezing energy bills and building more "renewables".
As for the tories, well they're a lost cause in all this and are determined to confuse the issue and prevaricate and do nothing. They have signed a deal to build a nuclear plant which would produce the World's most expensive electricity. The tools!
Then we have the salt in the wounds rubbed in by some new eco-development supposedly researching "clean" forms of energy on what was a perfectly productive coal mine.
It's an insult to white elephants.
Energy policy is run by the likes of Greenpeace, WWF and the RSPB.
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28 July 2014 17:42269968Looks like living in haystacks might be the next vote thatcher!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24550996Do nothing and nothing happens. - 28 July 2014 17:45269969The problem of future energy shortage has been known for many years but not really in politicians interests to tackle it.
The issues over fracking not clear cut, the maps are very vague and it is not clear how national parks or AONB will be protected. Interesting that the economic powerhouse of Europe i.e. Germany have rejected it outright because of the threat to water supplies. - 28 July 2014 18:28269976Locally we cannot afford to allow fracking because of the water supply to our district - it's all in acquifers and not much to spare.
It was and has been stated by the fracking companies that chemicals are used, but they won't say which ones and whether they would pollute the water supply.
I do believe that there will be areas (quite a lot of them around the country) that can safely allow fracking, but after our scrutiny of it at DDC, so much information came out, that the recommendation was NO.
I cannot say whether I am for or against wind and solar farms as I am on the planning committee and that would be predetermination.
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5 January 2019 08:58353177https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-46766122
Fracking showdown
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