30-07-2013, 10:57 PM
Despite Tory contempt for the north I doubt it will remain like that forever. They will claim the resources where ever they may be that makes them $$$s. We have them trying to drill in metropolitan Sydney. No one knew it was even happening until it was in front of their face. The farmers have been dealing with the destruction of their communities and livelihoods for some time but all that was out of sight out of mind for the city folk. Not any more. Nothing is sacred to these environmental vandals.
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Where do they find these ignorant fools?
Oh yeah, close to Power...
Quote:Fracking can take place in 'desolate' north-east England, Tory peer says
Remarks by Lord Howell, former adviser to William Hague and George Osborne's father-in-law, blasted by environmentalists
Damian Carrington
The Guardian, Tuesday 30 July 2013 16.35 BST
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Protesters' placards at the entrance to Cuadrilla's drill site in Balcombe. Over 20 protests have been made since Thursday. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
Fracking should be carried out in the "desolate" north-east of England, a former Conservative energy adviser has said, prompting criticism and claims the remarks highlighted the party's "problem with the north".
Lord Howell, who advised William Hague on energy policy until April and is the father-in-law of the chancellor, George Osborne, drew gasps of astonishment in the House of Lords on Tuesday for suggesting that the controversial form of gas production could take place in the north-east without any impact on the surrounding environment.
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"Lord Howell's suggestion that fracking should be concentrated in the 'desolate' north-east is jaw-dropping," said Friends of the Earth's energy campaigner Tony Bosworth. "But the government's ill-conceived fracking plans aren't something that can be quietly brushed under the carpet 'up north' as the villages resisting the drillers in the Tory heartlands of England's south show."
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