more energy wasted ...

 

There's no real argument over fracking. It is simply an act of desperation that governments are hoping will muddy the energy waters (in more ways than one) whilst using up scarce energy resources even more quickly.

 

I've never heard so much bullshit about anything - which suggests that governments worldwide are REALLY scared, for why else would they do this?

 

Fracking WON'T add a single litre of energy to world supplies, it will REDUCE what remaining energy there is. Why? Simple, fracked oil and gas is a last resort. Had it ever been a sensible energy source it would have been exploited decades ago. We are WASTING good energy to get at BAD, it makes no sense at all. The amount of conventional energy used to get this stuff out will, when all the transportation, equipment, policing, production and infrastructure investment energy costs are taken into account (which would be ZERO if we left the muck in the ground) far exceed any actual product that is got out. Basically fracking is a vanity project only viable in an age of easy and cheap energy, it would die an instant death in a world where net energy (EROEI) is a widely understood concept.

 

Fracking WON'T reduce the cost of energy. It will increase it. The costs in both money and energy of drilling at Balcombe have been enormous and not a single drop of oil or gas has been produced - and NEVER will be! Even if some wells do produce oil and gas they will simply be sold on the world market which is currently seeing conventional oil and gas deplete, ALL energy costs are tied to the cost of oil in any case. To suggest that some sort of bucolic socialist patriotic autarkhic secondary market in fracked oil and gas will develop (British gas and oil for British volk!) just shows how out of touch with reality Cameron and our government are. They take us for idiots. Daily Mail and Sun readers may be, but the rest of us aren't!

 

Fracking WILL damage communities, water supplies, food supplies, air quality and social relations.

 

Fracking WILL increase the cost of energy and the speed of climate change. It will also deplete energy sources more quickly.

 

The question has to be asked - what is so wrong in the world that any government or company would consider exploiting this wasteful, expensive, polluting muck?