The Mail on Sunday reveals another UK oil well that has been fracked in the past without obviously poisoning anyone or anything. This time in Nottinghamshire:
The beautiful expanse of grassland on the RSPB’s Beckingham Marshes reserve is exactly the kind of environment antifracking protesters are so determined to protect.
During their ‘Solidarity Sunday’ today in the West Sussex village of Balcombe, thousands of eco-warriors will tell the world that fracking – the process of pumping water into underground wells to ‘fracture’ the rock and force out oil and gas – should be banned to avoid ‘industralising’ the countryside.
In fact there has been fracking here in Nottinghamshire since 1963, the last time in 1989. One well has been fracked four times.
Interestingly, the focus this time is on a proposed development by iGas rather than the greens' favourite whipping boys at Cuadrilla. Spreading the focus of the green disinformation campaign seems to me like a good thing to do.
Bishop Hill
Also well worth a read this morning is Douglas Carswell, whose article on shale and Luddism includes this rather wonderful quote:
Tim Yeo yesterday suggested that we are better at regulating shale gas here in Britain than they are in America. Indeed. Which is why right now we have no shale industry to speak of.