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I think the basic problem is that the opponents of shale and their supporters are not having the same conversation. They are talking past each other because they are not really talking about the same things. So this report will not be convincing.
After all, the sort of things our host flags as good – cheap energy for instance – tend to be seen by the other side as bad. Remember Avery Lovins who is supposed to have said giving humans a source of cheap, clean energy (cold fusion as it was thought it might be at the time although that did not work out) was like giving a loaded gun to a small child.
The question is whether the rest of us side with the smelly Hippies or the filthy capitalists. We can but hope.
Blackpool Frack is not quite Texas T, but has the idea that Lancastrians could become quite rich off of this sunk in locally yet, anyone know?
Yorkshire would have claimed independence by now!