Fracking guidance
Jun 19, 2014
Bishop Hill in Energy: gas, Greens

Prof Iain Stewart points us to the official geosciences guidance for the Scottish Baccalaureate. The document considers a range of projects that might be undertaken by the able students working towards this new qualification, and shows how they might present their findings.

One of the example projects is on fracking and I was amused at the range of materials this hypothetical student had considered in order to inform themselves of the shale gas extraction process. I have categorised them for you into Green, and Other.

Green

The BBC piece is not overtly green, but enough green memes are repeated without qualification to push it over the limit IMHO.

Other

This is, in the jargon, only an "exemplar", but I think it tells a story nevertheless.

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