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A report has been produced into the earthquakes in Lancashire earlier this year, which were linked to nearby fracking drill sites.
It comes to the startling conclusion that if you intentionally set out to split rock underground, then rock underground will move and cause an earthquake.
Is there any other industry that shows the desperation of the fossil fuel fools? Rather than invest in renewables, they come up with more bizarre ways of trying to get at the product to which the whole planet has become addicted. Like a cigarette smoker taking tobacco from discarded butts to make a new cigarette, we allow companies to crack open the rocks beneath our feet hoping for the sweet release of some gas.
At the Scottish Green Party conference last weekend, I was tickled by a policy motion that was presented with just three words: "We oppose fracking". It was amended to reflect that we were talking about Hydraulic Fracturing, but I preferred the simplicity of the first version. After all, what more do you need to say?
I'm also hoping that there's no typo when it comes to be written into our policy documents, or we'll find we've just opposed something completely different!!
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