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?”
David Lindsay
There is no energy shortfall if we reopen access to this country’s vast reserves of coal, and develop other secure, high-waged, high-skilled, high-status jobs for working-class men in the form of hundreds of the nuclear power stations long advocated by the relevant trade unions.
Neither side of this is possible without enormous State action, in practice necessitating public ownership. It is either that or this. Which is it to be?
Like the coal on which this island very largely stands, nuclear power is absolutely vital to defending our sovereignty, not least by keeping us out of wars that ought not to concern us, while cementing the Union and while securing the high-wage, high-skilled, high-status male employment that is the economic basis of paternal authority in the family and in the wider community.
Nuclear-generated electricity would be so cheap that it might not even need to be metered. But there is absolutely no need for the price to be paid in increased electricity bills in the short term.
China will be using the coal ash from her coal-fired power stations to provide the uranium necessary for her nuclear power stations. There is a reason why some countries last and some do not. China has been China for five thousand years.
This perfectly beautiful programme has been developed in partnership with Canada, the source of much of our uranium, which we also obtain largely from Namibia and from Australia. Who says that Commonwealth ties no longer matter?
Apparently, British coal is too high-quality to deliver uranium. Just as well that we have the Commonwealth, then. But the right sort of coal is abundant in Spain, Germany and Poland. Good luck to them.
And good luck to the Japanese, who are looking into extracting uranium from seawater. Yes, seawater. Have we any of that? Yes, we have.
Reverse privatisation. Renounce climate change hysteria. And restore the proper jobs that ground proper communities, the economic basis of paternal authority, the national sovereignty that is energy independence and public ownership, the binding of the Union that is public ownership, the Commonwealth ties on which our uranium supply depends, and the freedom to stay out of wars over other people’s oil or gas.
All guaranteed by the State, since that is what it is for.
SimonB
I’d support fracking for geothermal energy, but we need to leave hydrocarbons in the ground.
Cole
Don’t be so silly. No-one is talking about closing down the economy. But the moronic climate change deniers might soon close down our planet.
Cole
Coal? You must be nuts.
David Lindsay
No, that is only true of anyone who says otherwise. We import vast quantities of coal while sitting on enormous reserves of it, above which are centres of male unemployment and low-skilled dead end jobs. If that’s not madness, then I don’t know what is.