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| It's only part of Scotland, at the moment. |
I just had an email from Greenpeace.
It seems that David Cameron’s plan
to allow fracking firms to drill under our homes has been rubber-stamped by the
House of Lords.
But there's
something worse: At the very last moment, the draft of the law was updated to allow fracking firms to pump "any substance" under people's homes and property -- and leave it there!
This makes
a total mockery of Cameron’s claim that UK fracking regulations are some
of the most stringent in the world. And it clears fracking firms of any
responsibility for clearing up the mess they create.
We all know that neither the government nor the fracking firms give a stuff if your pets are poisoned or your kids start being sick.
The only thing that matters to them is the bottom line, and making a massive profit.
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| Lord Smith of Kelvin (where have I heard his name before) wants to bring fracking to Scotland |
The fracking industry has already
been mired in accidents and mistakes. In April 2009, cattle were discovered
dead near a drill site in Louisiana. An investigation later found fracking
fluid had leaked from the well pad and run into an adjacent pasture. And in
July 2013, US fracking firm XTO Energy was forced to shell out $100,000 in
compensation after a spill of contaminated wastewater in Pennsylvania.
Despite
claiming that the UK has tough regulations to prevent disasters like this, the
government is now rushing to remove obstacles by
pushing through laws that will put the interests of shale drillers before the
safety of our environment, our climate and most important, our people.
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| Mr Ordinary doesn't want to bring fracking to Scotland |
Greenpeace has a petition which you may be interested in signing.
Remember the people who are set to gain from this are mates with the likes of Osborne and Cameron. They are not the kind of people who care what happens to your house, your family, your possessions or you if you are anywhere near being an ordinary person.
Sensible countries that give a damn about the environment, or the people who live in it, have put fracking on hold. The Uk of course wants to press ahead as it seems to think there is a massive amount of money to be made, and money is their god.
Fergus Ewing our energy minister, thinks that the power to issue or not issue licences should be held in Edinburgh, closer to the people, not London where they simply don't care about Scotland, but it's too late for that now. We blew the chance to rule our own country It's a done deal and London has the power.
We didn't vote for this bunch of SPIVs. We mustn't let them frack Scotland.
