David Cameron claims that fracking could alleviate fuel poverty, but
even his friends at Cuadrilla - the fracking company slated to cash in
on the dash for gas - feel fracking’s impact on household bills will be
‘basically insignificant.’
What we do know is that fracking is being used to justify up to forty
new gas power stations and that extracting new fossil fuel deposits is
likely to make climate change worse. It will also require tens of
thousands of new wells in Lancashire alone, scarring the natural
landscape wherever shale gas is exploited.
According to international experts, we need to keep two-thirds of
known fossil fuels in the ground to avoid ‘runaway climate change’ – the
point in which global warming becomes irreversible.
Rather than scraping the bottom of the fossil fuels barrel and
building up costly infrastructure that will lock us into a high-carbon
future for decades to come, we need strong government investment in
clean, renewable energy.
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