Who will pay for the cracks in the foundations of residences in the area ? Not the US hedge fund financing this disaster.
Let's face it. Once the UK (or what will be left of it) goes over the Brexit cliff on WTO terms next spring, they will need any penny they can get.
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Judging from the photo of these protesters - boy, they look like something a Hollywood movie would do - and that too with extras.
They look so Un English.
It probably took them more time to dress up, match colors and accessories.
They were intending to make an anti fracking statement - but it appears in reality - it was a fashion statement.
And I may also add that some of their fashion accessories, boots and others - definitely appear to be based on plastics and that too cheap plastics - God forbid, but they come from petro chemicals.
These folks need to get a life or at least a job where dressing up for a statement is not what is required, but dressing up so you can do an honest days work.
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I get fracking quakes all the time at work in Grand Prairie, Texas. Every few days or so, my desk will wiggle around.
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England's "Green and pleasant land" no more.
All power to big fossil. Never mind boom and bust (privatization of profit and socialization of risk), overuse and toxification of water, ruination of infrastructure (sewers and roads, for example), and the stupidity of more greenhouse-gas emissions (and methane seepage).
As for letting the community have a voice, what/s that?
They stealing everything that isn't bolted down to promote themselves and their profiteering "friends".
the UK is not even a good location for fracking. It's not exactly wide open spaces.
But planetary ruination to feed the maws of greed is all the fashion these days. Exploit exploit exploit, that's the name of the game.
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@Susan Anderson - I think you're overstating the risks associated with fracking. The US EPA has found no widespread or systemic water contamination from fracking. The locations where fracking occurs in the US have required oil and gas companies to compensate for road wear. I would expect that the UK will do the same. People need to heat their homes, cook their food and transport themselves. Solar in the UK isn't very practical. What do you suggest they use for energy?
It should be noted that the three protesters jailed this month with unprecedented and extraordinarily harsh sentences committed the offence in July 2017 prior to the injunction Cuadrilla took out in 2018 preventing obstruction of the site and their work.
The non violent direct action taken by the jailed protesters is a form of peaceful protest an essential human right and in previous cases such actions have been prosecuted as obstruction of the highway in local magistrates courts and have resulted in offenders being fined and possibly bailed away from the site.
The police and Crown Prosecution Service decided in this case to prosecute the action as one of public nuisance which requires trial by jury in a crown court and carries the possibility of a long prison sentence. This is the first time that the law on public nuisance has been used against environmental campaigners since the Kinder Scout mass trespass in 1932 and as such sets a dangerous precedent.
Cuadrilla have yet to use the 2018 injunction against protesters who have continued to block access to the site.
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In view of the recent report analyzing climate change an additional supply of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is the last thing needed. No matter how benignly the drilling is done the damage to the lives of our children is too important to ignore.
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@irdac - What do you recommend for your energy needs? Solar doesn't seem very practical. Windmills are not going to fulfill your industrial needs.
@irdac Except, of course that the fracking revolution in the US has drastically lowered CO2 emissions and put coal out of business. Unlike say super green Germany, which remains chained to the dirtiest lignite coal one can dig out of the ground. Forget CO2, the mercury they blow into the air will get you long before sea level rises. But go on worry about producing gas, the cleanest stuff we can burn. If fracking is properly regulated, this can be done and has been done with relative safety.
Fracking vs Britain’s rural aspect. Sorry, Mr Gasman, the green idyll wins. The soul of Britain is in its countryside.
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The Island of Great Britain is a crowded place the use of good farming land for gas production is a problem and given this drilling site is close to three large towns not to mention several small villages makes it less than attractive for the folk of Lancashire. Fracking in the UK is about money and not a necessity it is not needed.
The UK isn't short of gas we have secure supplies from our own North sea fields and a pipeline supplying gas from the Norwegian fields with a second under construction.
We don't need the hassle we have already successfully had fracking banned in Scotland and we will continue to make life as difficult as possible for any company that attempts to frack else where in our green and pleasant land!
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