Anti-Fracking Protest?!

Had a few conversations about this recently, no one likes talking about battlestar galactica when everyone is really angry about fracking, so unfair as I think it's a little bit hilarious that everyone is getting so angry and shouting fracking...

In reality they shouldn't be doing the process, it seems a massive waste of money to sink bits of the country for nothing much.
 
pingwing said:
In reality they shouldn't be doing the process, it seems a massive waste of money to sink bits of the country for nothing much.
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Yes, it's a huge waste of money to secure our energy future for a long long time to come.

But I'm sure those protesting will be the first to cry when Russia turns the gas off and holds us to ransom.
 
"I don't want to talk about myself, I want to talk about fracking."

Im sick of it.. Been weeks of uneducated morons talking about stuff they are not qualified to have an opinion and should shut up and deal with it.
 
someone do a mock "photoshop" with Cylons as police and Cuadrilla as one of them new humany ones....
would go viral and Kudos to you for hilariousness.
 
When I saw a map of main areas of shale in the paper the other day and saw most of it was midlands and north I became a big supporter of fracking. It's a gift from the south to replace those coal mines you always whinge about losing.

No need to say thanks guys :)
 
It's just rent a mob, people protesting for the sake of it without having a damned clue what they're talking about.
The locals hate it. Masses of unwashed camped out by the side of the road leaving mess and you don't even want to know what, everywhere.
Not to mention the increase in local council tax etc due to the constant and increased police presence that's required because of the protests.
Bloody hippies.
 
I understand why locals might not want fracking in their area, but at a national level we do need this. Not to mention it will create jobs, taxes and hopefully cheaper energy prices.

It might be better to do this offshore, but currently the process is quite expensive. It might be worth the government investing in that, so we can do it in the North Sea rather than say Cumbria.
 
pingwing said:
Had a few conversations about this recently, no one likes talking about battlestar galactica when everyone is really angry about fracking, so unfair as I think it's a little bit hilarious that everyone is getting so angry and shouting fracking...

In reality they shouldn't be doing the process, it seems a massive waste of money to sink bits of the country for nothing much.
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10% of the gas that has been discovered in the north of England so far will be enough to provide the entire UK with gas for 50 years. So yeah, its 'nothing much'
 
The thing is, you can't argue with a protestor. No matter what your background is, they know everything there is to know and more and you're just one of the sheeple bleating along. I just shrug nowadays and feel happy that they have no actual power :)
 
Efour said:
"I don't want to talk about myself, I want to talk about fracking."

Im sick of it.. Been weeks of uneducated morons talking about stuff they are not qualified to have an opinion and should shut up and deal with it.
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Hear hear. Although we are having lots of laughs at the expense of the stupidity of the protesters and journalists who don't know their rig from their wellsite... Or their shale from their carbonate... Or it seems, gas from oil...

But us know, lets keep protesting against shale gas at a well that doesn't involve shale or gas... :D
 
pitchfork said:
Better ways to spend money for energy long term. Bin the fracking.

Now to haul out my whaling ship.
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The good thing is shale gas doesn't involve public money, unlike renewables which do.

We (as a nation) need a combination of renewables and conventional fuel to power the country. As gas is far cleaner than coal or oil I'd rather gas plants replace oil and coal plants any day of the week. That combined with CSS in future and the proliferation of renewable electricity would give us a reasonably sustainable (but very attainable) energy self sufficiency, reducing carbon emissions alongside it.

We just need to get over the scare stories people have been putting out about fraccing/fracking. Gasland wasn't a documentary, it was almost the equivelant of what the day after tomorrow was to climate change... Watch the horizon program on fraccing instead to at least give an overview of what is happening in the states, not that that is necessarily relevant to the UK as we have a totally different regulational and environmental regime.
 
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