Imperializt Russia wrote:Lamadia wrote:Shale gas can reduce massively bill costs, making the energy industry in Britain more flushed with homegrown supply, makes us ever-less reliant on Russia (obviously, not entirely,) and can generate big jobs in small communities. Yorkshire should be happy.
There's a massive image problem, and rightfully so. No-one believes the pro-fracking community, because all they do is promise it'll all be fine and solve all our problems ever. They're worse than the Vote Leave campaign.
They fail to demonstrate this. They don't even try.
In some of the American fracking operations, studies after operation deduced that yeah, it was basically safe and not environmentally damaging (one groundwater contamination incident was due to the well being improperly fitted, which still doesn't inspire confidence, but the point is, it's not inherent).
Yet the companies don't seem at all willing to engage. Or point this out. Or really do their own public studies to try and assuage public fears.
They either outright don't care, or are just full of themselves.
Remember what happened last time we had companies like that in the UK? NIREX put nuclear waste management back at least thirty years.
I use this term a lot; overrated. And the problems are overrated, as you say, studies have shown that 'fracking' is not anywhere as near as dangerous as it is claimed. Certainly, a bit of good publicity wouldn't go-amiss. I recall an episode on the Simpsons (a show by Fox), the town they live in was turned into a fracking community. It had a rather wonderful publicity campaign!