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Originally Posted by GEaston
Staying on a positive theme for the day, lets discuss Fracking. So by complete fluke it turns out that Lancashire is sitting on a mountain of gas.
As with most things, the Accyweb community will want to turn this into a negative immediately, pointing out that there was a small earthquake in Blackpool once. Marge may have fond memories of bucket and spade holidays there as a kid but if you've been there lately you'll notice it's a complete dump, on a par with Hull.
Returning to the benefits of potentially decades of Gas reserves, the positives are numerous:
- jobs, jobs, jobs - construction, process, research, operations, sales the list is endless and for one they'll be in your county.
- Youth unemployment is over 20% so read point 1 again.
- cheaper gas bills.
- reduced reliance on Middle East and Russia.
- Balance of Payments improves as we export more.
- Huge Tax windfall for government. We owe 1.2 Trillion pounds so this matters.
- Scotland is stupid enough to vote yes to devolution, so I welcome energy self sufficiency for England.
Previously on this forum people have passionately advocated pulling resources out of the ground even though we were doing it at a massive financial loss (coal mining). Here we have an opportunity to obtain an energy resource and make money on it to the benefit of most of the country. Observations and views welcome. |
You my friend are a bit of a dipstick.
1. The jobs created will be for specialists in this field. Therefore specialist will be brought into the area. So there will be no jobs for the locals.
2. See 1. No jobs apart from specialist therfrore youth unemployment remains the same.
3. I remember when we got North Sea gas, it was supposed to be that cheap it was nearly free. Like hell it was. Therefore no cheap gas.
4. We will always rely on others because your government would sooner sell whatever we have at our disposal to others rather than let us have it any cheaper.
5. We have vast reserves of coal throuout GB. Rather than employ the unemployed and start mining again ( we have coal seams up to 37 feet high) under the Warwickshire basin at 500 meters underground between Coventry and Oxford that is a 100 years of modern minings worth. That's one area alone.
We are paying out to other countries in aid now as we have been doing for years 10 billion pounds plus per year.
If you want to discus the for and against of modern mining and you appear to be the expert. Fire away mister.