The Telegraph: Is There Any Future for Fracking in Britain?
If any frackers still retain any doubt about the depth of the crisis into which they have plunged themselves, they should have turned up for a briefing on Tuesday on their latest scheme for finding ways of gaining public acceptance. For the chairman of a special task force they set up to “create a platform for reasoned discussion” of the controversial practice struggled to express any confidence that the industry would long survive in Britain.
Launching Wednesday's first report of the Task Force on Shale Gas, set up by six fracking firms last year, its Chair, Lord (Chris) Smith, could only say that if the industry exploited the fuel properly and were well regulated and engaged fully with local communities then it “had a chance of getting off the ground”. But, he added “it’s a very big if”.
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