This happened last Saturday December 1st, but I just now became aware of it. From their website the photo looks like a lot of people, but the video that follows shows it to be a rather modest affair.
I think they might be a bit unclear on the concept:
Thank you to everyone who turned out on one of the coldest days this year. With our 7.2m fracking rig, we took a clear message to Parliament – “No Fracking in the UK”, a message backed up by other actions around the country, and one that was picked up by the BBC (see here and here) amongst others. Not only that but there could hardly have been a more critical moment to stage a conspicuous show of opposition to the the government’s unfolding plans for an expansion of fracking and a new dash for gas.
And what did they do to warm up afterwards? Chances are they went to a nice fossil fuel (gas) heated pub or their home.
From the video, it looks like there might be 200-300 people at this “national” event standing out in the cold.
I wonder what sort of yelling we’d hear if they couldn’t retreat to a nice warm place afterwards, and they were forced to stay out in the cold for a few days to experience firsthand what they preach?
h/t to Fay Kelly-Tuncay via facebook
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I fully agree that Brits are wimps and should experience some real cold. They don’t even know what winter tyres are.
But WHY do these people WANT more cold? Are they foreigners, planted by OPEC nations?
cnuts
True. Only the gas can save us from the coming cold…..
I guess they had to leave their 144 metre high windmill at home.
John McDonnell is an ultra-left Labour MP with dubious histories in the 1980s Greater London Council and now Parliament, including support for terrorist groups. Not surprising he’d join the bandwagon. He’s also a firm believer in homeopathy, so perhaps he doesn’t think the small number of protesters matters (joke).
Seeing a few hundred people in the freezing cold complaining about global warming and fracking would be funny, if their preferred policies weren’t going to cause deaths by hyperthermia in large numbers of elderly and poor people unable to pay the higher bills required for useless wind farms.
Time for another letter to my MP. Any UK residents please sign the petition to repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act – link available at Bishop Hill.
In a related developement
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9528905/Owen-Paterson-The-unknown-Cabinet-minister-has-a-fight-on-his-hands.html
John McDonnell M.P. is a card-carrying member of the British,” Looney Left”. who has never forgiven the UK Conservative Party for it’s part in the downfall of the USSR. He is chiefly known for his vitriolic dislike of Margaret Thatcher, which has on occasion led him beyond the bounds of principled criticism.
Someone should have taken their names. They’re obviously suckers who are willing to pay more for their energy.
If NatalieBennett (video) wants to lecture people about climate she should go back to Australia(where she comes from) where she will get a better reception, especially in Canberra.
I live a handful of miles from the Preece Hall rig on the Fylde coast. That’s the rig that is at the centre of the “oh noes, we’re all gonna die from man made earthquakes” controversy.
Never felt a thing.
And neither did any of the activists trying to get the place closed down.
They seem to hate humanity, especially their fellow Brits. I guess they really do want people to go back to the Dark Ages energy-wise, with all the resulting real pollution, lowered living standards, and shorter lifespans, particularly for poor people. Hard to say why.
Without the new fuel supplies that hydraulic fracturing will bring to the UK, their economy will vaporize. These people have no idea what they are actualy asking for. Sounds like a scene from Atlas Shrugged.
It shows that the dyed-in-the-wool-nut-fringe is really not that numerous. Nothing like the coldest fall in the last 20 years to cool the outrage of the back-to-the-caves folks.
The Green Party leader claimed fracking means radioactivity? Really? I guess it doesn’t really matter what they say as long as they say it loud enough.
If the Greens don’t want industrialization of the countryside, perhaps they should help people like this gentleman:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244765/Solar-farm-turn-dream-home-prison-Retirees-horror-plans-surround-bungalow-Europes-largest-renewable-energy-plant.html
These professional agitators are agitating themselves to the general indifference… the real danger comes from inside, politicians and bureaucrats serving green interests and their agitprop Thomson Reuters types.
Paul H why solar in a greenfields type environment? I’d much rather put up with a Gas/Oil
Rig drilling the gone than acres of panels an the whooshing of the blasted Turbines..
That poor man…
For those in the know, these stories are good for a quick laugh. “Fracking” is OLD technology that has been used for 50 years. The whole “fracking” scare came about because a reporter glommed on to cool-sounding industry jargon, i.e. “fracking”. The “new technology” was doing a frack job in multiple zones in a horizontal bore. THAT is what unlocked the shale boom. “Fracking” wasn’t invented in 2004. LOL
PaulH says (December 8, 2012 at 1:44 pm)
The Green Party leader claimed fracking means radioactivity?
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She also thinks natural gas is transported on lorries. 🙂
PaulH at 1:44 pm
“The Green Party leader claimed fracking means radioactivity? Really? I guess it doesn’t really matter what they say as long as they say it loud enough.”
When fracking wells are drilled, a lot of stuff comes up. One substance might be Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM). Not sure how bad this is though. Might just be one banana equivalent dose. But shouting “Radioactive” is all that’s needed to excite the mostly un-informed troglodytes and the modern day ‘Kmer Rouge’ supporters.
That’s a “fracking rig”? That’s not what a rig looks like in Texas; that looks like a couple of light weight pieces of galvanized steel that couldn’t even support the drilling mud tanks at a prospect much less withstand the mechanical stresses and pressures a real rig must withstand.
Anti-fracking activists in Boulder, CO display “ugly” character, harass, intimidate witnesses.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2012/12/05/antifracking-activism-takes-ugly-turn/29977/
Just the usual Rent-A-Mob and a few nutter speakers.
Fracking is the solution to the UK’s energy problems; nutters/greenies/lefties are the problem.
Non passerons!
/sarc
The irony is that greens are planning a fraccing program beneath the highly populated centre of Manchester, quite near the rural shale gas drilling site. The idea being to harness geothermal energy. Move along, nothing to see, no double standards here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18920893
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/refs/geothermal/MacDonal.pdf
Think of them like children. I could not tell a child to get off the grid. Cold kills. Now wait til the spring and look out for the excess UK winter deaths total.
I lived in the UK for many years and understood what gas central heating meant. Before I had it unstalled it was expensive with electric heaters. No heat in bathroom mid winter.
Pitty them for they do not know. 🙁
JamesD says:
December 8, 2012 at 2:26 pm
For those in the know, these stories are good for a quick laugh. “Fracking” is OLD technology that has been used for 50 years. The whole “fracking” scare came about because a reporter glommed on to cool-sounding industry jargon, i.e. “fracking”. The “new technology” was doing a frack job in multiple zones in a horizontal bore. THAT is what unlocked the shale boom. “Fracking” wasn’t invented in 2004. LOL
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The idea of Co2 pumped into oil wells is nearly 40 years old. Oil companies are in on the scam.