Guardian retreats, Telegraph implodes
Aug 19, 2015
Bishop Hill in Energy: gas, Energy: oil

Adam Vaughan in the Guardian is looking at fracking and rather surprisingly seems to have shifted away from his earlier position. Who can forget his trying to compare the risks to thalidomide and asbestos. He almost seems to be edging towards a position of plausible deniability:

Ultimately, it may just be too early to say if fracking is bad – and what’s bad for one country might not be for another.

Meanwhile the Telegraph has  stepped back boldly in the opposite direction, with an article from commodities editor Andrew Critchlow that has apparently been penned from a position of almost total ignorance about the whole subject (read it and you'll see what I mean).

So, given the unpopularity of fracking and big oil's scepticism about the prospects of exploiting the UK's onshore resources, why has the Government persisted with another licencing round covering more areas for fracking? Surely the risks are too high?

That said, one can at least be amused by Mr Critchlow's insightful observation that crude oil trains are flammable.

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