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    The Yorkshire Post: Tony Bosworth – We’re Not "Monumental Hypocrites" – Opposition to Fracking Is Well-Founded

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Friends of the Earth campaigner Tony Bosworth has reacted to pro-fracker Sir Bernard Ingham's assertion that anti-frackers are hypocrites

by: Erica Mills

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The Yorkshire Post: Tony Bosworth – We’re Not "Monumental Hypocrites" – Opposition to Fracking Is Well-Founded

Sir Bernard Ingham’s pro-fracking diatribe in The Yorkshire Post last month was outspoken and entertaining. But it is also utterly wrong.

The overriding impression is of someone who is simply out of touch. Opposition to the controversial process isn’t from a “ragbag of so-called environmentalists” and “a bunch of monumental hypocrites” as Sir Bernard claims, it’s from local people, many of whom have never campaigned on anything before. This opposition is springing up wherever fracking is proposed, and it is well-founded.

Read the full article HERE.