POLL: Is it time for Britain to frack?

Do you agree? Is now the time to frack? Let us know by casting your vote below.

Is it now time to frack? Let us know by casting your vote below

Fracking enjoys widespread support in Britain, according to a new survey.

Research carried out by the research group Populus for UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG) found that 57 per cent were in favour of the controversial tachnique which extracts shale gas from the ground.

The poll quizzed 4,000 people and found that 16 per cent were opposed, with just over a quarter (27 per cent) undecided.

The poll shows that the public would like to see the government use both shale gas and renewables to meet the country’s energy requirements.

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117 Responses to “POLL: Is it time for Britain to frack?”

  1. David Lindsay

    The irreconcilable opposition to fracking is mostly motivated by the identities of the strongest proponents.

    In the same way does the British (unlike, say, the Australian or the American) Right hate coal. By its own logic, it ought to love coal, as its Australian and American brethren do. But these things are not always about logic.

    I still suspect that this shale gas business is all just wishful thinking bordering on superstition, and that the gas is not there, or at least not in anything like the quantities alleged. We all know why anything sounds too good to be true.

    The people who are most pro-fracking are so besotted with America that they now even imagine Britain to have the same geological features. But if it is there, then by all means use it.

    We need nuclear power, which was strongly supported by Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband when David Cameron called it “a last resort”.

    And we need coal.

    Not necessarily in that order.

    All else is ancillary to those two. Including shale gas. If anyone really wants to go about extracting it. And if it is really there.

  2. HD2

    Yes. We should have been fracking ever since the 1990’s ‘dash for gas’ which was the most monumentally stupid thing ever done on the power generation front in the UK.

    The other stupidity was to fail to build 20 identical new nuclear power stations (CANDU designs) to generate 50% of our electricity cheaply.

    And the third was to allow the power generators to amalgamate, which goes against the first principles of Darwinism, which is COMPETITION.

    And I’ve not even mentioned the economic insanity and scientific illiteracy of the Climate Change Act, which is truly national suicide.

  3. Cole

    So you don’t think man made climate change is happening?

  4. Cole

    The last YouGov poll in June showed that just under 50% were in favour and 31% against, with support sagging compared to their previous polll. Of course this most recent one was commissioned by the fracking industry.

  5. Edwintheslugcrusher

    Nope. Fracking is not the way forward for our energy. Nor is it the way forward for our environment. Conservation and alternative forms of energy such as solar and wind along with tidal is the way forward.
    This is the time to let all the energy companies know we do not want to see their companies wrecking our land. Never.

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