UK Environment Chief - We Must Frack In National Parks - It's Safe, And We KNOW What We're Doing!
Fracking in national parks should be permitted because the visual impact can be limited when the process is "done properly", the outgoing chairman of the Environment Agency has declared.
Chris Smith, who is due to step down from the post next month, waded into the debate over fracking by dismissing the claims of those campaigning against the impact of the controversial drilling at particular sites.
"Provided it is done carefully and properly regulated, those fears are definitely exaggerated," Smith said in an interview with the Times. He went on to reject the arguments of other anti-fracking campaigners who want to see greater emphasis placed on developing renewable energy sources rather than another fossil fuel.
"I don't agree with that analysis because we aren't yet ready to see 100% of our energy requirements being produced from renewables," he said. "Over the next 10-20 years we are going to have to use fossil fuels still and it's much better to use gas than coal."
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/28/allow-fracking-national-parks-environment-agency
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the only way to curb this attitude by the clueless is to somehow demand by some decree these clueless elitists be force to dwell in active fracking zones for two years minimum with the polluted water, air and not be allowed to go anywhere outside that zone. Simultaneously forbidding them any public forum or ability to discuss any of their dismay or clueless ideology to anyone, including their ideological cohorts. They have to have the full experience of the hell they've foisted upon so many who have been impacted by having no voice while being poisoned in their homes.
Come to think of it, this could be facilitated by them being forced to trade housing with the people most impacted at present.
Only after they have been placed in such untenable conditions will they have any idea of the damages incurred by the fracking practices upon people... and hopefully they will also see the environmental impacts.
