6 Replies to “Ralph Underhill cartoon”

  2. There’s quite a lot of misinformation about the fracking process in the UK with regard to its local impacts on groundwater. The Lancashire fracking boreholes are drilled down to 2km which is way below the water table and there isn’t actually any way that the groundwater can be contaminated via the pipe. This is because it sits at least 1.5km above the impermeable shale bed and gas will be piped up through a lined borehole. There were definitely issues in the US such as DavidH describes though – there appears to be fewer controls on the gas industry in the US, and the geology where some of the contamination incidents took place is closer to the surface and therefore groundwater supplies.

    However, I have massive issues with the extraction of shale gas for exactly the same reasons as Ralph’s cartoon. It’s the equivalent of sucking beer out of the beermats and the carpet in a bar where the barrel and the drip-tray have run dry.

  3. I wonder how many fracking advocates have even heard of the PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE much less understand it’s significance.

  4. Fracking looks like the next windfarms & GM and for exactly the same reasons: top down, profit/business inspired by companies who’ll walk away saying ‘our duty is to our shareholders’ if anything goes wrong. And they wonder why people don’t trust them.

  5. According to Greenpeace, if the Internet was a country, it would rank 5th for the amount of electricity usage, just below Japan and above Russia

    This suggests that Greenpeace is a waste of pixels, that Russia should try harder, and that blogs, TwitFace, i-Things and The Cloud are not cool after all, and merely contribute to our insatiable requirement for continuous elecatricity.

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