Tory energy idiocy: they want scientists to say fracking doesn’t cause earthquakes
Kwasi Kwarteng: he’s not interested in providing cheaper energy for you – he wants to make money for rich people at your expense.
Tory business twit Kwasi Kwarteng has commissioned the British Geological Survey to produce a new report on the impact of fracking – hoping evidence that it causes earthquakes will magically go away.
Kwarteng says he wants to find new ways of supplying the UK’s energy needs after prices skyrocketed due to a squeeze on the amount of gas available – worsened by the boycott on Russian gas triggered by that country’s invasion of Ukraine.
But rather than switch to wholly renewable and green domestic energy generation, he is turning to a calamitous strategy that will fill the country with nuclear waste and earthquakes that will cause massive property damage.
Potentially.
Fracking has been tried in the UK – near Blackpool – but was stopped because it triggered 17 earthquakes over a nine-day period, culminating in a “red event” that forced a halt in operations. The tremors were recorded by the British Geological Survey.
The Tories suspended fracking as an energy-generation policy in the run-up to the 2019 general election and in summer 2020 Kwarteng himself said the government had moved on: “We’ve always said we’d be evidence-backed so if there was a time when the science evidence changed our minds we would be open to that. But for now, fracking is over.”
Now the same goon wants to bring fracking back.
We’re all familiar with the process he’s using: pay an organisation to write a report that says what the commissioner wants it to say (in this case, that the earthquakes that closed the Lancashire fracking down didn’t happen).
It will be fascinating – not to say highly hypocritical – if the British Geological Survey’s report ends up saying this, as it was the same organisation that recorded the earthquakes and shut fracking down.
And let’s remember the real motivation for this new push towards fracking: MONEY.
The Tories know that fracking will make money for rich people like them.
They don’t care that it will cause earthquakes that may cause millions of pounds worth of harm to property belonging to poorer people because it means those people will have to pay other rich people to have it corrected – if possible.
And if it can’t be corrected – who cares? The people affected don’t matter – right?
Kwarteng himself has said that “fracking in England would take years of exploration and development before commercial quantities of gas could be produced for the market, and would certainly have no effect on prices in the near term”. So why bother with it, then?
Put the evidence together and it seems clear that this is an expensive waste of time. The effort should be put into efficient renewables that can be put into service quickly.
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Kwasi Kwarteng is a male politician not a male scientist with expertise in the dangers of fracking! So Kwarteng’s only focus is on increasing his fascist tory bros’ wealth by claiming fracking is safe!
Time to commence fracking in Whitehall and especially at numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street. There is so much hot air emanating from these premises so why waste all that energy – put it to good use!
Callous and stupid fascist tories claim to be ‘the government’ but because the fascist tories voted a non intelligent male as their leader this results in equally stupid and mundane fascist tories being appointed ministers!
Cynically I believe there will be male scientists agreeing to lie because they will be terrified of being punished by the fascist tories!
They probably had this in mind , when Priti ‘s policing bill was drawn up , being that the anti frackers did such a good job of stopping them , even though it took years !!