Even if the shale gas is really there, then the places that may or may not have it do not want to be fracked. It is not as if they need the money.
Meanwhile, no one disputes that the coal is there. And the places that have it certainly do want it to be mined again, since they certainly do need the money, which they used to have.
Jeremy has now told the Gala two years in a row that he would reopen the pits. Ed promised to do that when he spoke at it, too. Like renationalisation of the railways, this used to be controversial within Labour but now it just isn't, it's what everyone thinks.
ReplyDeleteAnd half of them pretend that they always did.
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