Greens back shale
Aug 23, 2013
Bishop Hill in Energy: shale

This is a bit of a turnup for the books:

One [green] group in Surrey set up to encourage sustainable living has come out in favour of exploration and fracking, the process which may have to be used in future to extract the oil and gas.

Transition Dorking says it has surprised even itself.

But it looked at the evidence and came to the conclusion producing fuel locally may be less damaging to the environment than importing fossil fuels.

They should expect a visitation from the climate police, I would say.

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