When You're in a Hole, Stop Fracking

[steepholm]

Despite myself I'm beginning to feel rather fond of Lord Howell, the ermined fuckwit who called the north-east of England "desolate" yesterday. Speaking to The Telegraph today he has apologized and explained that he actually meant to insult the north-west. So that's all right.

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What was in my mind was much more the drilling going on off the Lancashire coast. But it came out of my mouth as the North East, which you can blame me for rightly. And that has created a great furore.

The North East wasn’t in my mind at all. Afterwards, I checked my words again, playing back the debate.

It was a stupid error of mine to mention anywhere at all. The general story is right – that we want the derricks for fracking to be far away from residences in unloved places that are not environmentally sensitive. I don’t want to see gas fracking subsidised like wind farms are. A lot more care must be taken than has been the case with wind farms, which have caused terrible desecration. It’s odd that they’ve decided to do this in sensitive places down in Sussex.

In unrelated news, the Court of Appeal today recommended that the DPP give further consideration to the guidelines for assisted euthanasia.

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[gillo]

And yet Sussex is a wilderness of tacky 30s ribbon development, with virtually no natural countryside of any value remaining, right?

Stupid pillock he is too. Just where are there "unloved places that are not environmentally sensitive" anywhere in these tiny little islands of ours?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Unloved by Tory voters, he meant to say.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It's a fair point.

Peter Maxwell Davis's little piece 'farewell to Stromness' was written when the (Tory) guvmint of the day intended to tear up Orkney for uranium prospecting, safe in the knowledge that it is a place where they're not yet aware that the people's William has long gone to his rewards.

They were quite surprised at the public outcry!

There is, of course, no uranium to speak of in Orkney.