I was watching the BBC news tonight and strayed into BBC south east.
Half way through the news came an interview with a citizen of the leafy village of Balcombe. Why am I writing about this Sussex paradise you might ask?
This is a village that is sitting on potentially vast resources of natural gas and permission has been given for an exploratory drilling to see it’s potential.
Now as I’ve posted before, the method of extraction is a game changer for our energy supply. Since 2005 we’ve seen an increase in cost of natural gas in this country, of an eye watering 35%. It makes sense to utilise a cheap form of energy to fuel our economy out of recession.
Not so for the hardened green ecotwatess..
This so called “Spokesperson” ranted on about every ridiculous scare story that you could think of. Here’s a sample:
Ground water will be contaminated. (How come if the drilling is thousands of feet below)
Local wild life will die.
Earthquakes will devastate the area. (The earthquakes in the Fylde area were only picked up on seismometers)
All the horned toads will be eradicated. (Insert your protected species of choice).
We have to have renewable energy.
I hate with a passion these idiots who haven’t a scientific bone in their body who are so gullible that they’ll leave reason behind.