Quote Originally Posted by alfinyalcabo View Post
The jury's out with me over fracking,not too sure yet,it needs a lot more investigating before I think we should use it..I love the Windmills and Solar farms though..
That’s my position Alf. The SNP Green lobby says All fracking is bad, just as are all cars, coal etc. We need to live in the real world. Wind power is good but is no good if we have no wind and we generate more than we need when it is windy as we can’t store it. Solar farms too, but not much good if your are in cloud all day or only have 6 hours daylight in winter when energy demands are greatest.
Taming the ocean for power has been tried but doesn’t seem economic.

The US has been fracking for years so it’s not surprising given the large number of wells there have been instances of problems. The USA Environmental Protection Agency produced a Report. THere’s a map on page 8 of the 275000 wells in the US opened between 2000 and 2013. It doesn’t know how many opened before that but 1 million is mentioned as a guess.
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production...ve_summary.pdf
They identify the risks and so it should be simple to allow fracking in areas of low risk to gather data on safety. We need to be informed and there is a chance to allow it under scrutiny in a few locations.
The green plan is for electric cars, but where we will get all the green electricity on a dark windless December day to power them, n never mind how much installing charging stations will cost.

Sorry BT I have no clue how Iraq affects fracking in Blackpool or Scotland. Let’s have a dose of reality though.