So now the prices will go down, right? There is no way they’d just sell it abroad for extra profit, yes?
Short-term gains are great when you only care about PR and staying in power until the next election. It will make a great headline in some papers but that does not change the fact that it is an environmental disaster and that we need to shift away from fossil fuels to avoid environmental catastrophe.
Appalling decision, just weeks after the 40°C mega-heatwave.
Fracking won’t reduce energy bills, and won’t improve our energy security.
It ***will*** increase our emissions, cause tremors that damage local properties and infrastructure, pollute water, kill wildlife, and make some already rich people even richer.
great, piss away our enviroment so liz and her buddies can fill there pockets some more. set of cunts
All Tory MPs in the North of England should lose their seats from this alone.
More fossil fuel for already rich companies to increase record high profits even more whilst we all still pay unfair high prices and destroy the planet in the meantime
Fucks sake, it’s will do nothing short term and in long term will do so much environmental damage, it’s such a dumb move, although not nearly as stupid as bring back imperial units, country is run by clowns
Feeling overwhelmed with how much shit is happening and I have no idea how to support causes to try and STOP (more) shit from happening!
I feel like UK citizens are just not being heard at all and it’s actually distressing 🙁
Don’t panic, the guy in charge of the one UK based fracking firm said fracking in the UK is not viable and won’t be happening.
Guarantee the waste water will just be dumped into our rivers, we’ll feel earthquakes( just from the tests they did years ago, they had several which meant stopping so unless they change the rules on those, its barely going anywhere) Either way needs to be banned and hope the protestors our out again to delay. Would love to join but health prevents me.
She’s just the next in line of tory thundercunts who are only there to take as much as they can
Fracking just doesn’t work in the UK. Here’s an article by the former head of a fracking company:
It’s about geology more than laws and environmental concerns. Why are we wasting time on this?
Ah yes, that’s exactly what the country was crying out for at this time of Crisis.
Yayyy I love a cheeky bit of cancer in my morning coffee ❤️
Kinda feels like the government should be getting a fresh mandate for this shit by having another election.
I don’t think “implement Thatcher’s neoliberal fantasy” was on the last manifesto.
Tory dogma requires that this issue be reinstated, since they’ve screwed the pooch when it comes to onshore wind (still hostage to Heaton-Harris and his swivel-eyed climate denying cronies) despite it being the cheapest and quickest to deploy at scale. I expect that the planning system will be further tinkered with to remove the rights for local authorities to decide these applications (since they will be refused). I haven’t heard anything from Miss Truss(t) about what *extra* measures she is going to suggest Frackers provide to try and convince the host community to go along with the idea.
good to see the tories closing down sale of our country is continuing
Short term gain seems to be the mantra of this government.
What a huge, greedy, selfish step back for the country. Repulsive decision.
Doesn’t really matter. This isn’t the Permian Basin in Texas or the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (both which are larger than the UK in area), which have vast networks of existing pipelines, storage and processing facilities and a massive existing workforce to draw upon. They’ll need to either build the infrastructure (good luck with that lmao) or truck the gas, which will make it more expensive than importing LNG.
How many MPs and their families invested in fracking companies before this was voted on?
Fracking ban lifted, how long until first report of Earthquakes
I’m popping in from Texas just to say “Don’t do it!”
Enjoy the cancer and mental disorders.
I’m just saying, y’all really should look into Robspierre’s work and emulate it with the house of lords.
Oh GOOOOOOD. The people in charge are completely corrupt.
Tory Scorched Earth policy. Drive up the deficit and borrowing, reduce taxes, damage the environment for profit, and when Labour get in the Tories can pretend everything’s shit because of the Labour government.
What was that fallas name, remember remember…csnt recall the rest
I’m all for diversifying energy supplies and reserves, but who profits from this? And can we not have those resources limited for use within the UK and not just rampant pillaging to sell abroad for peanuts.
Congratulations **England**, first they pump your rivers, lakes and seas full of untreated sewage and now they will will contaminate your groundwater with fracking
So glad I don’t live in England
Earlier today I had fresh water from the tap and went for a surf in the North Sea off the Scottish coast
It’s literally one fucking injustice after another with these fucking leeches. This is so transparently a handout to tory mates it’s not even funny.
Nobody in the UK will benefit from this. Not even a little bit.
Completely pointless ideologically driven decision to keep the Tory voters happy. No energy companies are interested in onshore fracking in the UK. There’s literally no point
A truly disgusting decision, Now we just wait for the earthquakes to start again and have them deny that its fracking.
Alright, start wherever she lives. If it has to be earthquakes in No. 10 and all of London so fucking be it.
Record heat waves, climate extremes accelerating and temperatures appearing at levels decades early than predicted and yet they want to burn more while polluting the ground we live. Not to mention the people who operate fracking companies, I’m pretty sure, have said Britain isn’t a good place for fracking.
But no, let Thatcher-off-of-Wish have her way so a few people who will die in the next few years before it gets worse can have a little bit more money for their hoard while the rest of us starve and freeze!
I feel like they need to change their party logo from a tree to a pumpjack
What is little known about fracking is that it is not actually cost effective. It never returned even a fraction of the money invested in it in the US.
Great for the bottled water business, of course.
Ed Milliband today, perfectly explaining why this is a total bullshit move.
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So now the prices will go down, right? There is no way they’d just sell it abroad for extra profit, yes?
Short-term gains are great when you only care about PR and staying in power until the next election. It will make a great headline in some papers but that does not change the fact that it is an environmental disaster and that we need to shift away from fossil fuels to avoid environmental catastrophe.
Appalling decision, just weeks after the 40°C mega-heatwave.
We should be doing everything we can to get away from fossil fuels and transition to renewables/electric systems. We have less than a decade to reduce global emissions by 50% or we face [multiple, catastrophic tipping points from even a 1.5°C rise in warming](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds).
Fracking won’t reduce energy bills, and won’t improve our energy security.
It ***will*** increase our emissions, cause tremors that damage local properties and infrastructure, pollute water, kill wildlife, and make some already rich people even richer.
great, piss away our enviroment so liz and her buddies can fill there pockets some more. set of cunts
All Tory MPs in the North of England should lose their seats from this alone.
More fossil fuel for already rich companies to increase record high profits even more whilst we all still pay unfair high prices and destroy the planet in the meantime
Fucks sake, it’s will do nothing short term and in long term will do so much environmental damage, it’s such a dumb move, although not nearly as stupid as bring back imperial units, country is run by clowns
Feeling overwhelmed with how much shit is happening and I have no idea how to support causes to try and STOP (more) shit from happening!
I feel like UK citizens are just not being heard at all and it’s actually distressing 🙁
Don’t panic, the guy in charge of the one UK based fracking firm said fracking in the UK is not viable and won’t be happening.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/fracking-wont-work-uk-founder-chris-cornelius-cuadrilla
Guarantee the waste water will just be dumped into our rivers, we’ll feel earthquakes( just from the tests they did years ago, they had several which meant stopping so unless they change the rules on those, its barely going anywhere) Either way needs to be banned and hope the protestors our out again to delay. Would love to join but health prevents me.
She’s just the next in line of tory thundercunts who are only there to take as much as they can
Fracking just doesn’t work in the UK. Here’s an article by the former head of a fracking company:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/fracking-wont-work-uk-founder-chris-cornelius-cuadrilla
It’s about geology more than laws and environmental concerns. Why are we wasting time on this?
Ah yes, that’s exactly what the country was crying out for at this time of Crisis.
Yayyy I love a cheeky bit of cancer in my morning coffee ❤️
Kinda feels like the government should be getting a fresh mandate for this shit by having another election.
I don’t think “implement Thatcher’s neoliberal fantasy” was on the last manifesto.
Tory dogma requires that this issue be reinstated, since they’ve screwed the pooch when it comes to onshore wind (still hostage to Heaton-Harris and his swivel-eyed climate denying cronies) despite it being the cheapest and quickest to deploy at scale. I expect that the planning system will be further tinkered with to remove the rights for local authorities to decide these applications (since they will be refused). I haven’t heard anything from Miss Truss(t) about what *extra* measures she is going to suggest Frackers provide to try and convince the host community to go along with the idea.
good to see the tories closing down sale of our country is continuing
Short term gain seems to be the mantra of this government.
What a huge, greedy, selfish step back for the country. Repulsive decision.
Doesn’t really matter. This isn’t the Permian Basin in Texas or the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (both which are larger than the UK in area), which have vast networks of existing pipelines, storage and processing facilities and a massive existing workforce to draw upon. They’ll need to either build the infrastructure (good luck with that lmao) or truck the gas, which will make it more expensive than importing LNG.
How many MPs and their families invested in fracking companies before this was voted on?
Fracking ban lifted, how long until first report of Earthquakes
I’m popping in from Texas just to say “Don’t do it!”
Enjoy the cancer and mental disorders.
I’m just saying, y’all really should look into Robspierre’s work and emulate it with the house of lords.
Oh GOOOOOOD. The people in charge are completely corrupt.
Tory Scorched Earth policy. Drive up the deficit and borrowing, reduce taxes, damage the environment for profit, and when Labour get in the Tories can pretend everything’s shit because of the Labour government.
What was that fallas name, remember remember…csnt recall the rest
I’m all for diversifying energy supplies and reserves, but who profits from this? And can we not have those resources limited for use within the UK and not just rampant pillaging to sell abroad for peanuts.
Congratulations **England**, first they pump your rivers, lakes and seas full of untreated sewage and now they will will contaminate your groundwater with fracking
So glad I don’t live in England
Earlier today I had fresh water from the tap and went for a surf in the North Sea off the Scottish coast
It’s literally one fucking injustice after another with these fucking leeches. This is so transparently a handout to tory mates it’s not even funny.
Nobody in the UK will benefit from this. Not even a little bit.
Completely pointless ideologically driven decision to keep the Tory voters happy. No energy companies are interested in onshore fracking in the UK. There’s literally no point
A truly disgusting decision, Now we just wait for the earthquakes to start again and have them deny that its fracking.
Even those in the fracking industry know it’s not really viable here https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/fracking-wont-work-uk-founder-chris-cornelius-cuadrilla
Alright, start wherever she lives. If it has to be earthquakes in No. 10 and all of London so fucking be it.
Record heat waves, climate extremes accelerating and temperatures appearing at levels decades early than predicted and yet they want to burn more while polluting the ground we live. Not to mention the people who operate fracking companies, I’m pretty sure, have said Britain isn’t a good place for fracking.
But no, let Thatcher-off-of-Wish have her way so a few people who will die in the next few years before it gets worse can have a little bit more money for their hoard while the rest of us starve and freeze!
I feel like they need to change their party logo from a tree to a pumpjack
What is little known about fracking is that it is not actually cost effective. It never returned even a fraction of the money invested in it in the US.
Great for the bottled water business, of course.
Ed Milliband today, perfectly explaining why this is a total bullshit move.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1572901088197758976?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Offer her a glass of polluted fracking water during a live interview