‘The only thing that can save us from fracking is you, the British public.’
Our thanks to the hundreds of you who came out for the Fracked Future Carnival and helped us strike fear into the hearts of the fracking companies and government officials who were meeting yesterday to discuss the future of fracking in the UK. The meeting was planned to be in Knightsbridge but was moved at the last moment when they heard about the demonstration – to a secure gated military facility in East London. But we found them!! And the press found us (check the Climate Revolution Facebook and Twitter platforms).
Whether you were there or not, you can still help by signing our open letter calling for a moratorium on fracking at www.talkfracking.org.
Our friends from the Trillion Fund joined us at the demonstration and also sent us this clear and myth busting infographic. Shale gas is definitely not the answer to the EU’s energy needs!
The UK generated 3.7% of energy use last year. Germany was better with 10%, but Germany also outputted more CO2 than the UK because it used more coal to offset the cost of its renewables.
I’m getting annoyed with headline grabbing numbers and no explanation of how things will actually work. It is putting me off the Green movement and pushing me towards politics that might work.
For example, there is no mention in that graph of what we will use when the renewables are not generating at their hoped for capacity. Is it hoping for storage technologies that do not exist yet? Is it backed by gas and nuclear? If it is then was that factored into the savings costs of using renewables? probably not.. Normally with renewables you have to build the renewables as well as the nuclear and gas – there is no cost savings in that, it costs a fortune.
Why does this graphic feel like it is hiding the truth and just hoping to get people on side? We have to be honest about renewables if we want people to trust us.
Comment by Hannah J on 24/07/2014 at 5:15 am