Yes, even bringing the Mail and Guardian together for once:

http://zelo.tv/13NXITd

And for one very good reason: the London-centric right-leaning media and punditry don’t care if it’s happening near Blackpool, but Balcombe is only just the other side of Gatwick Airport, for goodness’ sake.

It’s only a concern for the Mail and Telegraph when it comes closer to London – closer to where their staff and contributors live. Good old “enlightened self-interest”, eh?

Nimbys to the rescue! Shame there’s not more Niabys instead. (Not in anyone’s back yard)

Luvvies versus high paid environmental terrorists! Yawn.

Never fear. The BBC is hard at work selling fracking as completely harmless and good for Britain, even cutting the price of fuel for ordinary people. I know this because that nice Countryside programme told me so yesterday. Aimed squarely at Middle Class, Middle Aged Middle England, it pulled out all the stops for Cuadrilla.

To be fair – energy has to come from somewhere and we can either pay Putin or some of the nut jobs in the middle east – start a few wars, kill a few kids or we can build nuclear – the Fins are having a great time with that one (and I, for 1, would rather have a fracker than a nuke) or we can revert back to the stone age.

So, options on the table – whaddya gonna do? And it’s a bit rum for people in one breath to scorn Thatcher for shutting the mines – which killed thousands, and then whinge about frakking in the places where mining used to occur. I dunno – it’s like people just want everything at no cost.

5. DtP

The bottom line is that oil has had its day . We simply cant produce enough to go round given population projections and if we did we’d choke,starve or burn to death through global warming.

Nonetheless oil technology is pretty much de facto and as such is the route away from the future impasse.

Thus,existing oil reserves need to be used to create environmentally sustainable methods of energy production eg
producing wind farms and the like. If it is squandered on cars and useless consumables we will arrive at a point (maybe we already have) where we simply dont have sufficient resource at a given price level to convert to any sustainable energy supply.

Nuclear fuels suffer from a similar problem with increased scarcity. The good stuff is going fast and the stuff thats left will be increasingly expensive to refine. In short it would be impossible for everyone to convert to nukes even if this were a sustainable form of energy which it isnt. Moreover, the waste is virtually impossible to get rid of and attempts to do so prohibitively expensive.

In reality , the US ,who will and have killed to get where they are in terms of oil dominance will continue to maintain global hegemony. No-one will take a blind bit of notice of the scientists until their houses blow away or burnt down because thats pretty much what has happened over the years. We will all get very bored eating our tea and watching endless queues of Black people starving and attempting to cross into Europe as Africa becomes uninhabitable. China and Russia will not stand idly stand by. There will be lots of war films to watch and the price of gold will rocket as the demand for medals spirals.

At the end of it all ,it has been estimated that a billion souls will remain although under what conditions is conjectural.

The only thing for certain is a US flag will be flying,Blair will still have an offshore account an Arnie will be president.

No, of course middle England hasn’t woken up to anything other than its usual obsession with house prices. The main driver behind most of this bluster, from the Mail in particular.

Read this very informative link and make up your own mind.

frack-off.org.uk/fracking-hell/watch-the-film/

If you know anyone else or any other websites that would like to be better informed, feel free to pass this link on.

http://www.frack-off.org.uk/fracking-hell/watch-the-film/

The above website describes unpatented renewable energy devices. One became the Copenhagen wheel though spoiled by electronic gear in the vortex cavity. The others have attracted every major company and leading universities in the US to the site. I have been twice nominated for the Zayed future energy prize by some one at KAUST. What bedevils my situation is that I was put under surveillance by David Blunkett when he Home Secretary and no one now dares to realize the devices.There is no need for fracking my stuff unobtrusive,reliable and cheap is sufficient

If they are fracking on top of a cooling tower then somebody has made a mistake.

The Left really needs to get over itself when it comes to fraccing and put itself on the right side of history .

As Peter Styles explains we’ve been fraccing in the UK since 1988 and plenty of onshore wells have been fracced .

http://www.scienceomega.com/article/1001/backing-for-fracking

Germany has been fraccing since 1955 .

There are differences in the geology between the Bowland Basin , Gainsborough Trough and Widmerpool Gulf in the North West and East Midlands and the Wealden Basin in the home counties .

The shallow freshwater aquifers in shallow chalk present a challenge to drilling upwards of a thousand wells regardless of whether hydraulic fracturing is used or not .

I’ve no doubt our engineers will pioneer solutions which will make well integrity concerns a thing of the past and under what grounds will people protest then ?

Given the hysteria surrounding Cuadrilla’s plans to drill and acidise in Balcombe , and not even frac unless necessary the objection seems to be against hydrocarbons per se rather than the means of extracting them .

We are decades away from being able to heat the nations houses with electricity so we need gas for some time .

People might not like farmers either but we all need to eat .

Fat chance. Daily Mail-reading Dad (sorry) on phone last night quoting me their article. There’s been fracking in Nottinghamshire for 50 years! No problems whatsoever. Nature reserve next door, no water contamination, lots of power, lots of jobs, that’s alright then.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396378/50-year-old-fracking-site-makes-mockery-Balcombe-zealots-Its-nature-reserve–fracked-gas-oil-power-21-000-homes-day–complaints-locals.html

They’re looking at coal bed methane extraction up here in Scotland.

We’re like obese people who know they have to lose weight still on the hunt for the next Greggs. Madness.