The public inquiry into Dart Energy's plans to extract coalbed methane at Airth on the Firth of Forth kicks off today. As one might expect, Friends of the Earth Scotland are busy trying to mislead the public, sticking a #fracking hashtag on their tweets so as to kid on that fracking is an issue in the inquiry. In fact the planning permission doesn't involve fracking at all and I seem to remember the Dart guys telling me that the coal seams at Airth are unsuitable for deploying the technique.
We will watch with interest.