Fracking good or bad?

I've read that the Business Rate retention is worth £1.7 million per fracking well, plus they get 1% of the revenue and there's some other stuff that all adds up to £10 million per annum. What on earth is the going rate for bribing a Councillor these days?

I foresee this whole bribe incentive business causing problems with how it would be distributed. If it's ring fenced to just very local communities will the local Parish Councils really get £1 million pounds p.a.?

And then there'd be the fracking wells just across a Council boundary from a village or town, so the adjoining Council would get all the cash and that village/town would get nothing apart from the disbenefits.

 

Perhaps because the solar panel manufactures don't give enough bribes err, sorry meant campaign contributions.

 

You can guarantee if it goes ahead Our bills will NOT be reduced, Blah blah need it for reserves for 2030 blah blah EU Rules etc blah blach.
Increased profits though for the share holders and bungs to ministers/councils

I do not know enough about it
If it was safe and the benefits to the public like half price fuel then fine
Only we do not know,

As for clean ups, we have several large holes in the ground here in FIFE and now all the coal is extracted, British Coal cried bust no money Bankcrupt and moved out, can not afford to carry out the clean up
(There are several large plant equipment lying there the past two years and a lovely large JCB complete with buckets that I am sorely tempted to give a good home to :-) )

Jack McH

 

Did anybody buy a dodgy wind turbine from B&Q before they took them off the market?

http://www.diyweek.net/news/news.asp?id=11999

Going back a bit from that, does anybody else remember the then government saying that electricity generated by nuclear power stations would be so cheap they wouldn't bother charging for it as the cost of metering consumption would be greater than the cost of generation? "Too cheap to meter" was the phrase being bandied about.

 

Our government is also trying to go ahead with fracking in the Karoo (some 900 miles S.W. from where I am) and spewing out the same nonsense about lower fuel costs to customers, job creation, incentives for local municipalities, less dependence on foreign fuel, blaah, blaah, blaah.

 

I'd never believe the bit about lower fuel bills, however I do worry about some of the dodgy places we might be relying on for gas.
We need our own energy supplies, and windmills are just another government rip off, going by what I have heard.
Anyway it stands to sense, they dont work when the wind dont blow.

I do have a liking for roof fitted solar panels, but just how cost effective they are is a mystery to me, as again, no even handed evaluation.

 

Very true Webmaster.

What ever happened to wave power?
As I recall, the UK used to be the world leader in this.

 

And they don't work (have to be shut down) when it blows too much.

Are they only cost effective if subsidised? They seem to be getting better in that modern panels are slower to degrade that older ones and appear to need chucking out after 25 years http://energyinformative.org/lifespan-solar-panels/ , but as they get better and better will households find it cost effective to update and send the old ones to landfill every 10 years or so?

 

What a simple but absolutely amazing idea those soda bottle lights.

 

Only going on what I have heard, but as I understand it, this goes on much deeper than any water extraction in the UK, in the US they do use very deep boreholes for water extraction.

"Fracking is not a specific form of drilling in that the process has a lot of leakage of the gases and other chemicals which finds its way to the surface." isn't that the object of the exercise?

As to tap water catching fire, obviously something has gone very wrong at the water treatment plant, I think its a joke.

 

A dozen Nuclear plants, and we could live free of fuel costs if it was so wished
To many fingers in the pie of profits in the electricity generating, they would still want mega profits, and it is true it would cost more to read peoples meters than it would to produce
Then in this day and age the meters could be read on line, so minimum cost to everyone

Too many people frightened about Nuclear waste Even though they do not know what Nuclear waste is (cotton gloves, paper suits exposed for more than thirty minutes to the main fusion plant = less radiation than in your 1960's illuminated wrist watch)

Yes there have been FOUR disasters in the WORLD over the past 50 years equating to less than one years road deaths in the UK

Nuclear for me please AND NO WIND FARMS leave this as it is


After wee ecks Independence



Jack McH