fracking

[Mr P Cannop]

whats everyones views about this ??

[George Brims]

Well it's complicated. It seems a good idea to get more oil or gas out of existing wells instead of having to drill in ever more inaccessible (and sometimes quite beautiful*) places. On the other hand some of the chemicals they are using to do it don't seem to be good for the environment, particularly in places where the water supply is artesian wells. The documentary movie "Gasland" gives one side of the argument. The constant ads on our telly just now saying fracking is going to bring us (in the USA) a Golden Age of energy independence give the other side.

* I don't mean Lybster

[Mr P Cannop]

dont vote john thurso back in may as he vote for fracking under peoples houses

[dozy]

They should start Fracking in Scotland under the homes of all the NO votes ,they voted for the union and Westminster control. Bend over and take whats coming, you deserve a good Fracking

[Mr P Cannop]

if they do your water will get infected

[golach]

They should start Fracking in Scotland under the homes of all the NO votes ,they voted for the union and Westminster control. Bend over and take whats coming, you deserve a good Fracking

Caithness as a county voted NO,

[unhappywanderer]

Shale-gas extraction is a significant danger to the medical wellbeing of people and all forms of wildlife on land, in the air and in water.

After shale gas has been mixed with other gases then it is used by consumers, together with oxygen, for several different purposes where a number of alien gases are emitted into your air as pollutants. Each of the alien gases emitted has a different atomic weight and molecular size. They do not go away like magic either.

[scotsboy]

Alien gases....do they appear like magic? If not where do they come from?

[David Banks]

Well it's complicated. It seems a good idea to get more oil or gas out of existing wells instead of having to drill in ever more inaccessible (and sometimes quite beautiful*) places. On the other hand some of the chemicals they are using to do it don't seem to be good for the environment, particularly in places where the water supply is artesian wells. The documentary movie "Gasland" gives one side of the argument. The constant ads on our telly just now saying fracking is going to bring us (in the USA) a Golden Age of energy independence give the other side.

* I don't mean Lybster

Yeah. The ads on the telly easily pass through the very porous border into Canada also.
Apparently, the US is now "the no. 1 producer of natural gas" and are now using fracking to increase their oil production. If "that woman" on the ads keeps saying that they are "safely" extracting . . . then, eventually it will become true. Right?

If TV's weren't so expensive, I'd have thrown a few bricks by now.

Industry and corporate advertising has gone completely nuts, and I wish I could call it "unbelievable" but, sadly, it's working.

Oh yes, I almost forgot government advertising - which we all pay for - where they tell us what a great darned job they are doing, and claim it is just information for our enlightenment. Can I get more bricks, please?

[Alrock]

I quite enjoy it.... Oh.... Fracking.... Never mind, I'll get my coat...