Shale gas does not cause earthquakes, pollute water or use toxic chemicals. Wind turbines do far more damage.
It was the US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who once said: “You are entitled to your opinions, but not to your own facts.” In the debate over shale gas — I refuse to call it the fracking debate, as fracking has been happening in this country for decades — the opponents do seem to be astonishingly cavalier with the facts.
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