UKIP's dodgy dossier

To get up to speed on fuel choices, listen to this guy, the late Peter Fagiano.  http://youtu.be/DoQ_k8omsbM

Roger Helmer writes to me on fracking.

Dear Henry,

I think we need to get real on this.  There have been tens of thousands of wells drilled and fracked in the USA, and only a handful of problems.  

There has never been any case of fracturing reaching up to aquifers and allowing direct contamination.  

TAP - There is endless evidence of this happening all over Australia's fracturing zone and in the USA.  How come Roger is so incredibly ignorant of the facts?  Unbelievable.  This is outright denial of information that is easily available on Youtube and other channels.  It's not propaganda.  There are gadgets measuring methane and other toxic gases and substances as they emerge into water and into the air.  People can demonstrate the methane by lighting up their water with a flame.  MIllions have seen this on youtube and other channels, but somehow the energy spokesman of UKIP has not managed to absorb this crucial information.

Helmer writes -  
The only problems do indeed arise from issues at or near the surface, with the integrity of pipes and concrete casings, and both new technology, and regulation and supervision, are the solution.  I say again: compared to coal mining and most other energy recovery technologies, Shale gas is both clean and safe.  (TAP - Tell that to the people of West Newton in Yorkshire where local people are suffering appalling smells and Raithlin claim they are experiencing unexpected pressure) 

It is also an historic economic opportunity which it would be criminally irresponsible to ignore.

I'm glad to see your enthusiasm for coal.  But the fact is that the coal industry has killed hundreds of thousands if not millions, which is orders of magnitude more serious that any shale gas problems.  

Unfortunately too many people are being carried away by propaganda, and we risk missing the most important economic opportunity of the early 21^st Century.

Best regards.   Roger Helmer MEP UKIP's Energy Spokesman.

Dear Roger,

You are wrong.  Coal killed millions worldwide mostly through exposure to methane, the silent killer, the same killer you now want to release into water and air through fracking.  Modern coal mining is not done by navvies with pick and shovel.  Come on.  Coal actually burns cleaner than gas, with the carbon captured at the point of combustion.  That enables methanol to be produced very cheaply by adding hydrogen to the captured carbon.  See Peter Fagiano.

You are wrong on other counts.  

The greatest business opportunity of the 21st century, as you describe it, is not the gas fracked from under the aquifer at great cost, destroying our rural economy.  Destruction of the water reserves is the way your corporate buddies want to make their trillions.  That will enable Nestles, Coca Cola and the oil companies to start selling us water for trillions, when solar power, and cars running on water and hydrogen take over in the future, and make oil and gas obsolete.

I am shocked by your lack of knowledge on this crucial subject.   You are backing the release of an abomination into Britain's countryside, destroying our way of life, our health and our independence.  This is not propaganda.  Once we have to get water from overseas, we are lost to the corporations in perpetuity.   That's the game here.  And UKIP are the primary criminals by supporting this abomination so forcefully.

Henry

And there's the problem of abandoned drills.  The troubles can continue for generations after the drillers have gone, in most cases forever.  UKIP's ignorance on fracking is downright dangerous.

Save Our Streams Pa

Leaking gas well, Potter County Oct. 2014.Map link below! Located in Potter County, PA. This well is emitting a large amount of (odorless) methane and other hydrocarbons which are explosive. It is located approx.110 feet of a UGI gas pipeline. This well is not only contaminating the air and soil but a resident also desribed explosive levels of methane which rendered the nearby water well unusable. Oil and gas wells need plugging and re-plugging for the life of the planet. Cement plugs last around 20 years.saveourstreamspa.org Location of well Pike Twp. PAhttps://www.google.com/maps/@41.798226,-77.7126816,108m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en


On Nov. 1st, 2011 Save Our Streams PA kicked off a 'Scavenger Hunt' for locating lost, orphan and abandoned oil and gas wells to promote awareness by photographing and getting GPS locations for these wells and matching the photos with their GPS locations on Google maps that are easily accessible for online viewing. 
Map #1: http://goo.gl/maps/hWSg6
Map #2: http://goo.gl/maps/Z3Ena

Henry Curteis

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Lib Dems have noticed  the dangers -

Lib Dem president Tim Farron warns fracking could harm countryside 'for decades'

A new political row has broken out over the Coalition’s support for shale gas fracking, with a high-ranking Liberal Democrat warning that the process risks “damaging the countryside” for decades.

TAP - If or rather when Clegg goes, maybe the Lib Dems will start the political shift against fracking that's coming.  
UKIP have missed their moment.  Tim Farron's lining up to grab this political opportunity, and he's currently the number one bet to be Nick Clegg's successor.  If Farron were to be a bit cheeky and declare a personal anti-fracking policy, he might see Lib Dem support start climbing once more.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/09/shale-gas-drilling-epa-fracking-water-contamination

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2784305/Farron-mouth-And-s-unusually-big-QUENTIN-LETTS-blatant-bid-leadership.html

Lib Dem president Tim Farron.  Photo: NORTH NEWS AND PICTURES FOR THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH