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Will This Proposed Bribe Work? Up To 10K If There's Fracking In Your Area.

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sandyRoe | 12:04 Sun 07th Aug 2016 | News
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Hmmm....if “the people won’t be bribed” then why are the greenies so worried by the proposal
Honestly, if there is to be fracking locally then I think the money should be paid to individual householders and not passed to councils to decide what they think is best.....also I don’t think there should be any kind of means test on it as is implicated in that article...if its to compensate people affected by fracking then that should be the only criterion.
I don’t believe “bribes” (or compensation payments, call them what you will) should be paid at all, either to individuals or local authorities.

The country needs a secure energy supply. Given that we’ve given up on the vast reserves of coal upon which the nation still sits an alternative (unreliant on the wind blowing, the sun shining or the co-operation of foreign governments) needs to be secured. Only if householders are directly affected (e.g their house needs to be demolished to make way for a fracking well) should compensation be paid. This is yet another major project the government needs to get on and do rather than talk about (others that spring to mind are Brexit, runway expansion and Hinkley Point – either scrap it in favour of an alternative or build it). There is far too much prevarication when action is needed.
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There used to be a popular slogan in the 60s, "Nuclear power, no thanks!". We may soon come to a time when, " Nuclear power, yes please.", is the catchword.
I still think that nuclear power is the only way forward, for mass electricity generating...all those windmills and solar panels will help of course, but only nuclear can replace coal and gas.
Isn't it amazing that there are large cuts in gov. spending & cash to councils but when something comes up that the gov,cannot do without they can suddenly find money to 'bribe' people with.
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//but only nuclear can replace coal and gas. //

Wrong. We have enough coal and gas reserves for 100 years energy supplies including electrickery generation. The new methods with the carbon scrub systems are a damn site more "green" than noo clear plants. Factor in the concrete and safety systems req, but don't forget the clean ups required when noo clear plants are decommissioned. By the time coal and shale gas are finished fusion will be viable. Just think we have Mrs Thatcher to thank for preserving our coal suppliers rather than squandering them on a socialist vanity, virtue, programme. (^_*)
Togo...drivel.
If anyone wants to " frack" round here, fine. But I want the extra money to pay the extra cost of the home insurance premiums, which are bound to go up.
//Togo...drivel. //
At least I was spared the claptrap, in vain, attempt to give a counter view.

https://www.ice.org.uk/disciplines-and-resources/briefing-sheet/coal-and-future-energy-production

///Coal is a solid fossil fuel with global reserves of over 100 years.///
Pointless trying to enlighten some Baldric. It would be cheaper to give every adult in the UK £10k to frack off and let us get on with it, rather than let the frogs n gooks hold us to ransom for 50 years.
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Not to worry db. I once told him he was talking drivel and he has used the word at every opportunity since. Imitation is the sincerest........... and all that. (^_*)
Togo...I agree with you that we have reserves of coal left...whether we can use it to safely generate electricity from I will leave to the experts.

But I hope some way can be found to do it economically. It seems daft not to use a great national resource like that.

My comment of drivel, however, was your assertion that Margaret Thatcher closed down our coal mining industry, to "preserve our coal suppliers rather than squandering them on a socialist vanity, virtue, programme"

I have heard many reasons from right-wingers on AB as to why we no longer have a coal mining industry, but that one is new to me !
Surely Togo's
(Just think we have Mrs Thatcher to thank for preserving our coal suppliers rather than squandering them on a socialist vanity, virtue, programme)
was tongue in cheek sarcasm and not meant as a reason why Thatcher shut mines.
I just wish we would make a start with some large fracking sites. There must be somewhere where we can make a start and hopefully show it can be done without the explosions/earthquakes, massive traffic problems etc forecast by the anti fracking protestors
Mikey is Jeremy Corbyn's humour coach and I claim my five pounds.
We just need to get on with it. It will happen at some point so let's get on the band wagon up front and not hand it to foreign corporates.
Donny48...yes I expect it was, and a very clumsy attempt as well !

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