Don't Be Fracking Silly

We still have vast reserves of coal up here. And we want to resume exploiting them.

Whereas they might have shale gas in the South, but they don't want fracking.

I still suspect that this is all just wishful thinking bordering on superstition, and that the gas is not there, or at least not in anything like the quantities alleged.

We need nuclear power, which was strongly supported by Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband when David Cameron called it "a last resort".

And we need coal.

Not necessarily in that order.

All else is ancillary to those two.

Including shale gas. If anyone really wants to go about extracting it. And if it is really there.