FRACKING is bad for the climate. The government should be urgently focusing on renewable energy.
Fracking needs lots of water, so water shortages could be worse in future.
Fracking needs a lot of infrastructure. More roads are necessary to move the equipment, gas, oil and chemicals around the country – and to shift the tonnes of toxic waste. The sites also need drilling rigs and wells to be built. This could all result in lots of noise and traffic.
Claims fracking would create thousands of jobs are based on guess work. Friends of the Earth says the number of jobs in Lancashire would fall to under 200 only three years after work begins, and both sites would result in just 11 net jobs each.
Government-funded experts admitted in November 2014 that fracking won’t make energy bills any cheaper.
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