It may turn out to be perfectly safe. On the other hand it may turn out not to be.
Until we can be reasonably sure one way or the other, we back the government taking the only steps it can to ensure our safety, given that the UK intends to go ahead with rolling out licences, instead of following the lead of countries like Ireland, Bulgaria, France and Germany which have banned fracking until they know more.
It's not a perfect solution, and it may even be that the UK government can override this, given that it and only it is a sovereign power, but it is the best that is available to us for the moment.
tris
ReplyDeleteGiven its got Fergus Ewing of the Royal Ewings moniker
all over it no doubt the result will be a right royal Ewing cock up
the mans a balloon
Can this be the same Fergus Ewing with whom I took part in an energy debate in Aberdeen before the referendum when he insisted that planning Scotland’s economic future on the basis of oil at $113 was not only prudent but – as the White Paper said – “cautious”?
Did you debate with Fergus, Niko. I'm impressed.
DeleteWhat was the outcome?
I certainly don;t think that Mr Ewing would have been planning the country's economic future at all... a little really like Mr Gidiot isn't planning anything either...given that he couldnt add 2 bags of Charlie, to two bags of Charlie and get a correct answer.
Who are you Niko, Walter Mitty, because if you did debate with Fergus Ewing shouldn't you be proud enough to use your real name? I do so do a lot of Yessers.
DeleteI take it like so many of the NO camp you do not understand irony. Labour abstained on the moratorium bill in Westminster then lied about it. I can take anything but lying is not one of the things I care for.
Labour tells lies shocker. And why is it that unionists and trolls and especially unionist trolls think that the only thing in Scotland is oil?
ReplyDeleteSt Jim of keepie uppie is claiming the credit for the fracking "ban" announced by Scottish government. Not that he could be bothered attending the actual vote at Westminster. Why would anybody think that is what the MP is paid for - fools.
Panda
Deletewhy is it that unionists and trolls and especially unionist trolls think that the only thing in Scotland is oil?
Err! no it wuz the snp and its slaves such as you who
have been saying Scotland is Oil Oil and more Oil for years
and years and years.
And now the price has gone kerplunk ! all of a sudden
Oil wot Oil we dont need Oil.
Shame all the snp maths had Oil planned into
every policy.
still panda nobody noticed eh ?
Wrong Niko, as you very well know. When the price was up and the britnats was saying you can't build an economy only on oil (like they did with banking), the Yes side was at pains to point out the true figures, which indicated that oil was an extra.
DeleteThere is no doubt that the present price would mean that the oil fund would probably have to wait a while... but as you people kept on pointing out, oil is volatile.
A change of heart by the Saudi king and the price could start to rise again. A word of warning about future sales of weapons from the American president and the price could go up again. Another war in the middle east and the price could go up again.
double wrong tris but then you know that just doing
Deleteyour snp propaganda thing,
Well maybe you'd like to elaborate Niko.
DeleteStill 14 months till Scotland was to be independent. Once again Niko, what will the oil price be then? And oil is, was and will be a bonus. Labour accounting unit in Scotland is, was and continues to be bloody useless.
DeleteI take it that means you wouldn't like to elaborate?
DeleteChris Bryant is Labour MP for the Rhondda. He was once a Conservative Party activist. Just last week he came out with an anti-Welsh historical reference that was out by a mere 300 years. He advertised himself for sex on a gay web-site a few years ago posing in only his underwear. He will win in May with a massive majority. Donkeys and red rosettes...
ReplyDeleteId never heard of him but I do remember the story about an MP posing in his skivvies for a dating site. His name never stuck. But I looked him up on Wiki. Seems he must have come from money because he went to Cheltenham College then Oxford. He became a priest and got a degree in Theology. He was in the Tories, he was in Labour. He managed to fiddle a bit on the old expenses by flipping his home twice.
DeleteSounds like an MP.
Sounds like a Welsh Labour MP. The more recent arrivals are just as dreadful as their predecessors and are soon to be joined by Kinnock junior who lives in Denmark.
DeleteHe pretended that he was domiciled in Switzerland, for tax reasons, despite the fact he worked for the British Council and his was wife if the Danish Prime Minister.
DeleteI hope he was not fiddling whilst posing for the camera........
DeleteImagine a Labour family with the mother and father both in the house of lords... I mean... what the hell is that about?
DeleteOh, and thanks for that John. That's just spoilt my day.
It may turn out to be perfectly safe.
ReplyDeleteCan I nit pick that and ask "What is perfectly safe in about anything that man is involved in?
Which man in particular?
DeleteWell who'd have think it ... Labour M.P.'s LYING through their collective earse. Well it has to be their collective earse cause the majority of them are either NOT in Westminster are you Messers Brown, Darling and Murphy OR they can't be earsed to vote ... can you Margaret?
ReplyDeleteAnyone wanting the evidence need only look up Hansard's, the OFFICIAL record of what is said, when it is said and WHO votes for AYE and who votes for NOE, like here for example. Oh look it's the OFFICIAL record from Monday night's infrastructure vote.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150126/debtext/150126-0002.htm
LOL Thanks for pointing that out Arbroath. I tried to read the first few lines and fell asleep...
DeleteBut I did look at the voting.
Brown and Darling have been winding down for retirement for the last 4 years. You can;t expect them to turn up for work.
Dim Jim is trying out for Aberdeen or a place in Miss World showing off his legs... one of the two...
Aye well Tris, what can I say ...
DeleteBroon the Loon ... the P.M. who sold the country down the river of "Boom and Bust"
Darling the Marlin ... the Chancellor of the Exchequer who didn't have clue ... and still doesn't!
Murph the Smurph ... the man of the people ... that is just so long as they do what John McTernan tells them!
Actually Arbroath I was wondering if the good people of Renfrew care to be represented by yet another absentee MP. I think many in Kirkcaldy are completely fed up with Broon who could not rustle up enough of his party to go out and vote for his woman in the cooncil.
DeleteGood move, by Scotlands government, pity most of her Westminster representatives couldn't be bothered, or have a spine.
ReplyDeleteThere may be jobs in the fracking industry, and some of them may very well be looking for new jobs soon.
DeleteAnd you know, once you have become used to £66,000 plus expenses, it's not easy to ace life on IDS's dole!
Amusing thought though that the likes of McGovern could find themselves doing work experience in Poundland!
Duncan Hothersall is the latest British Labour apparatchik to be farted out of their great big sausage machine.
ReplyDeleteCompostition, offal, toasted bread crumbs and red colourant.
Where's the beef?
They doen't have any, not even nerve gangions and brains.
LOL What a ghastly thought.
Deletehe reminds me of Kezia.
BtP please do not compare the odious Mr Hothersall with offal, offal is useful and tasty. Mr Hothersall is none of those things.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem with Labour is that they have used abstention so often that they think that by doing so they ARE voting for what ever.
Why do people on here (inc. admin) waste so much time with this Niko fuckwit?
ReplyDeleteanon Oooer ! I say
DeleteHe's an Icon, and we are iconoclasts...
DeleteAhhh Anon.
DeleteIt goes a long way back.
Niko was part of the original gang that read this blog when only a dozen people tuned in...
Conan and John, Subrosa and Spookie, Sophia and Danny, Dean and Scunnert... and a few others...
Folk have come and gone, but the old originals are, I hope, still my friends.
Niko may be a unionist, but he's our unionist. he may be a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes, but he's our pain in the arse.
Just be patient with him. He'll see the light in the end.