A poll we ran found almost three-quarters of you were in favour of mining the massive reserves — using technology known as fracking — which lie under many parts of the country.
Sun readers signalled, “We’re backing fracking” by 71 per cent to 29 per cent after experts estimated there are 1.3trillion cubic feet of gas lying buried between Blackpool and Scarborough.
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Alan T · July 12, 2013 at 8:32 am
Excuse me, but what fabrication is this? When the poll closed 52% of the votes were AGAINST fracking.
Abdou · July 23, 2013 at 7:08 pm
That comment from laezeyadrr sounds like it comes from a paid spokesman for the industry. And there’s plenty of those, as they’re throwing millions of PR dollars at this to silence the opposition. Anyone who’s seen Josh Fox’s Gasland , knows there’s far more risk to health and the environment than the industry wants you to know. Development in NY means development of the Uttica Shale, which would impact the largest unfiltered water delivery source to the greatest population (about 15 million people) on the planet. For the short term benefit at most 50 years you’re potentially destroying the integrity of a clean water source forever when they frack it’s not just the chemicals they introduce which gets back into the water source, but they also disturb radioactive sediments common at those depths which find their way into the aquifers. The bottom line is that they have no control over the fracking process, they don’t know how many cracks and fissures the process will open up, and where the toxic chemicals they’ve introduced will end up.The EPA exception that the industry gained from the Bush administration, means that this industry is unregulated, and does not need to be publicly accountable for any environmental or health impacts they cause, the EPA is not even allowed to monitor them. Some countries have already decided to ban the process, and for good reason. Much better to invest the money in Solar Power and avoid the problems altogether.