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?”
itdoesntaddup
No-one is admitting that adhereing to the CC Act would result in closing down the economy but that is exactly what it implies. Meanwhile the emissions future of the global economy depends on weaning China off coal and oil – and developing its own shale gas. I suppose you deny that too?
Cole
What about the impact of coal on climate change? We need to switch away from coal asap. I agree nuclear, though not ideal, might be sensible interim solution.
David Lindsay
There is clean coal technology now. We could have been the world leaders. But we are not.
And any approach to climate change, which is always happening and always will,must protect and extend secure employment with civilised wages and working conditions, must encourage economic development around the world, must uphold the right of the working classes and of non-white people to have children, must hold down and as far as practicable reduce the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, and must refuse to restrict either travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich.
Last month, two members of the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee dissented from its report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
One was Peter Lilley. The other was Graham Stringer, a Labour MP who has been expressing these views for many years.
Remember, a party’s members of Select Committees are now elected by a secret ballot of its MPs. In the privacy of the polling booth, Labour MPs’ choice for Energy and Climate Change was Graham Stringer.
One to watch, on both sides of the coming General Election.
itdoesntaddup
The only two MPs on the committee with proper science qualifications…
David Lindsay
Quite.