Dill or Drop: “Shale gas is the new nuclear” – “Balcombe was the turning point”

Shale gas needs a rapid makeover because to the public it has become the new nuclear, according to the head of an ongoing-survey of attitudes to fracking.

Professor Sarah O’Hara, of Nottingham University, told an industry conference yesterday that the turning point, when opposition began to grow to fracking, was the Balcombe protest in summer 2013.

For people who took part in the survey, she said, shale gas had become the least acceptable form of energy, even though support for conventional gas stood at 70-80%.

Professor O’Hara said: “Shale gas has become the new nuclear. It is going to be quite a job, I think, changing some of the opinions that have been formed because that is how people are seeing it.

“There is an issue with shale gas for the British public. It needs a makeover very, very quickly.” Read the full article HERE.