If people want cheaper fuel than it needs to be done or as ready posted stop using so much fuel.
Fracking
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Icarebecauseyoudo
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Or we could use our wind resources properly
dickie mc rich
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Saw a documentary about fracking a while ago, folks in the states could set their tap water on fire and everything in all rivers died. I don't like fish and see it as free fuel so I'm all for it
You actually think that the ordinary consumer will see any of the benefits created by despoiling the nation and polluting the water table? Dream on!
Aye but that's too easy
monkeytassle
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Nope. Incredibly inefficient. Tidal is what you're after. None of which hold a candle to nuclear.
ravydavygravy
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That's all gone quiet it seems.
Butcher's Coat
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That was due to the home owner in the states having his water supplied direct from a well on his land, which is quite common over there.
I would say that the vast majority of homes in the UK have their water supplied by a piped system which come from a reservoir, the water being treated along the way, taking out any impurities. The water companies must ensure that the water is fit for humans to drink.
The Count
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Think you may have found the main drawback there, like.
I'm sure if the right wingers eventually get their way, pull Britain out of the EU and dismantle all the pesky market regulation that's getting in the way of prosperity, that protection of ordinary people and the environment will just continue on a voluntary basis because businesses are so nice.
UKIP supporters don't want that because Europe and immigrants.
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Icarebecauseyoudo
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We're not the same as the states
You don't own oil and gas under your land, the state does. We can strike a deal to let someone get it out of course, but it's a lot less lucrative than for the Yankee landowners
Plus of course our tracts of land are a lot smaller before they bash up against the neighbours. Makes fracking unlikely to happen on a major scale in this country IMO . You can only frack within the boundaries of the land you have permission for
You don't own oil and gas under your land, the state does. We can strike a deal to let someone get it out of course, but it's a lot less lucrative than for the Yankee landowners
Plus of course our tracts of land are a lot smaller before they bash up against the neighbours. Makes fracking unlikely to happen on a major scale in this country IMO . You can only frack within the boundaries of the land you have permission for
Fats
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Not for it or against it as I don't know enough about it, but I would have thought a prolonged process of exchanging one substance for another beneath the ground will have some impact on what happens on the surface.
In a similar way, it is considered environmentally friendly to harness the heat below the surface of the earth to warm your house. However, if every house was heated this way wouldn't it drop the temperature on the surface & thereby cause huge environmental harm?
In a similar way, it is considered environmentally friendly to harness the heat below the surface of the earth to warm your house. However, if every house was heated this way wouldn't it drop the temperature on the surface & thereby cause huge environmental harm?
alzeebub
Striker
What makes you think our fuel will be any cheaper as a result of fracking in the UK?
Any gas pulled from the ground will be sold at the going rates. The public won't benefit from this, investors will.
monkeytassle
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well revenue/tax streams will benefit the UK as a whole
alzeebub
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Sure, but I was responding to the fella who seemed to think we'll get cheaper fuel. We won't as a benefit of fracking.
monkeytassle
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agreed
The Count
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Trouble is the frackers (aka George Osborne's father-in-law) are getting huge tax breaks so there won't be much of a tax stream...
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