You have, perhaps inadvertently, expressed a truth. Anti frackers don’t really object to fracking (of which they know little) as such, although they happily co-opted this unfamiliar word as a scare tactic.
They’re simply against gas production.
If we could create a source of energy from the fervent rhetoric, we would be ‘saved’.
Hot air fills balloons that are vulnerable to pop-guns
Brendan O'Leary
1 year ago
You have, perhaps inadvertently, expressed a truth. Anti frackers don’t really object to fracking (of which they know little) as such, although they happily co-opted this unfamiliar word as a scare tactic.
They’re simply against gas production.
Jeff Carr
1 year ago
I often wonder what the local response to fracking would be if there was a local dividend from extraction in the form of an investment trust (or some such vehicle) to provide local improvements in infrastructure.
Last edited 1 year ago by Jeff Carr
Jeff Carr
1 year ago
I often wonder what the local response to fracking would be if there was a local dividend from extraction in the form of an investment trust (or some such vehicle) to provide local improvements in infrastructure.
Why has that map of Great Britain been chopped just south of Aberdeen? I’m keen to know what Aberdonians think about net zero.
Alphonse Pfarti
1 year ago
Why has that map of Great Britain been chopped just south of Aberdeen? I’m keen to know what Aberdonians think about net zero.
Chris Wheatley
1 year ago
This is exactly why Wales needs to separate from the UK. With a history of managing the devastation of industry, with a small population, with plenty of land for animal farming, with the real possibility of tidal power, with land for wind power, with 11,000,000 tourists per year, with the scientific knowledge in places like Swansea University, Wales can leave England behind.
When England is obsessed with the latest trend and fashion and gets ever more woke, Wales could easily be a net seller of energy to England for ever. It is possible to achieve this with leaders who are driven to succeed…..and there is the problem.
I’ve read this comment before and I’m astonished you still seem to believe this stuff.
There are many fallacies in your arguments, but here are three to get started:
Good though Swansea University doubtless is, I don’t think there’s too much dispute that the world class universities in London, Cambridge and Oxford are in a different league.
English farmland is also – on average – far more productive than Welsh.
Young Welsh people will continue to move to London for the best paid jobs (as will Scots).
Nothing against Wales, but your perspective on this seems badly warped.
With a small population of tax payers* and a hugely out-of-proportion national and local (un)civil service whose wagebill completely outstrips tax income. *of which I am one
The rusting hulks of abandoned tidal power projects will litter your coast, as they have done everywhere this “real possibility” has been tried for any length of time.
Speaking of tourists, did you know that the two most touristed countries in the world, USA and France, are also the ones with the most nuclear power stations? Far less destructive than wind farms.
Unfortunately, as you acknowledge, Wales is governed by hopelessly woke crypto-communists, possessed of even lower levels of competence than those who have wrecked the economy of Scotland. I did notice a lot more Welsh nationalism on my last visit to watch the rugger in the Millennium Stadium (just before lockdown), with groups of young lads chanting’Welsh not British, Welsh not British’ (ironically enough to the tune of the Big Ben chimes). I wonder how much the idea is gaining ground.
I’ve read this comment before and I’m astonished you still seem to believe this stuff.
There are many fallacies in your arguments, but here are three to get started:
Good though Swansea University doubtless is, I don’t think there’s too much dispute that the world class universities in London, Cambridge and Oxford are in a different league.
English farmland is also – on average – far more productive than Welsh.
Young Welsh people will continue to move to London for the best paid jobs (as will Scots).
Nothing against Wales, but your perspective on this seems badly warped.
With a small population of tax payers* and a hugely out-of-proportion national and local (un)civil service whose wagebill completely outstrips tax income. *of which I am one
The rusting hulks of abandoned tidal power projects will litter your coast, as they have done everywhere this “real possibility” has been tried for any length of time.
Speaking of tourists, did you know that the two most touristed countries in the world, USA and France, are also the ones with the most nuclear power stations? Far less destructive than wind farms.
Unfortunately, as you acknowledge, Wales is governed by hopelessly woke crypto-communists, possessed of even lower levels of competence than those who have wrecked the economy of Scotland. I did notice a lot more Welsh nationalism on my last visit to watch the rugger in the Millennium Stadium (just before lockdown), with groups of young lads chanting’Welsh not British, Welsh not British’ (ironically enough to the tune of the Big Ben chimes). I wonder how much the idea is gaining ground.
Chris Wheatley
1 year ago
This is exactly why Wales needs to separate from the UK. With a history of managing the devastation of industry, with a small population, with plenty of land for animal farming, with the real possibility of tidal power, with land for wind power, with 11,000,000 tourists per year, with the scientific knowledge in places like Swansea University, Wales can leave England behind.
When England is obsessed with the latest trend and fashion and gets ever more woke, Wales could easily be a net seller of energy to England for ever. It is possible to achieve this with leaders who are driven to succeed…..and there is the problem.
You have, perhaps inadvertently, expressed a truth. Anti frackers don’t really object to fracking (of which they know little) as such, although they happily co-opted this unfamiliar word as a scare tactic.
They’re simply against gas production.
If we could create a source of energy from the fervent rhetoric, we would be ‘saved’.
Hot air fills balloons that are vulnerable to pop-guns
If we could create a source of energy from the fervent rhetoric, we would be ‘saved’.
Hot air fills balloons that are vulnerable to pop-guns
You have, perhaps inadvertently, expressed a truth. Anti frackers don’t really object to fracking (of which they know little) as such, although they happily co-opted this unfamiliar word as a scare tactic.
They’re simply against gas production.
I often wonder what the local response to fracking would be if there was a local dividend from extraction in the form of an investment trust (or some such vehicle) to provide local improvements in infrastructure.
I often wonder what the local response to fracking would be if there was a local dividend from extraction in the form of an investment trust (or some such vehicle) to provide local improvements in infrastructure.
New TV sport? Miners clearing eco protestors ?
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
New TV sport? Miners clearing eco protestors ?
Why has that map of Great Britain been chopped just south of Aberdeen? I’m keen to know what Aberdonians think about net zero.
Why has that map of Great Britain been chopped just south of Aberdeen? I’m keen to know what Aberdonians think about net zero.
This is exactly why Wales needs to separate from the UK. With a history of managing the devastation of industry, with a small population, with plenty of land for animal farming, with the real possibility of tidal power, with land for wind power, with 11,000,000 tourists per year, with the scientific knowledge in places like Swansea University, Wales can leave England behind.
When England is obsessed with the latest trend and fashion and gets ever more woke, Wales could easily be a net seller of energy to England for ever. It is possible to achieve this with leaders who are driven to succeed…..and there is the problem.
Well yes, Chris, but with the right leaders the UK could do all that.
More than happy to offload Wales and the Scoti, like a pair of ball and chains to England.
I’ve read this comment before and I’m astonished you still seem to believe this stuff.
There are many fallacies in your arguments, but here are three to get started:
Good though Swansea University doubtless is, I don’t think there’s too much dispute that the world class universities in London, Cambridge and Oxford are in a different league.
English farmland is also – on average – far more productive than Welsh.
Young Welsh people will continue to move to London for the best paid jobs (as will Scots).
Nothing against Wales, but your perspective on this seems badly warped.
With a small population of tax payers* and a hugely out-of-proportion national and local (un)civil service whose wagebill completely outstrips tax income. *of which I am one
You may have forgotten that Legion of Marxist/Socialist toads that emanated from the ‘Valleys’, but we haven’t.
A financial disconnect. With Wales? They’ll be fine, let em sink and let’s circle the waggons.
Devolution was destruction without insight.
We now have a schizophrenic national government, supposedly of one-mind but unable to reign in the alternative personalities
The rusting hulks of abandoned tidal power projects will litter your coast, as they have done everywhere this “real possibility” has been tried for any length of time.
Speaking of tourists, did you know that the two most touristed countries in the world, USA and France, are also the ones with the most nuclear power stations? Far less destructive than wind farms.
Unfortunately, as you acknowledge, Wales is governed by hopelessly woke crypto-communists, possessed of even lower levels of competence than those who have wrecked the economy of Scotland. I did notice a lot more Welsh nationalism on my last visit to watch the rugger in the Millennium Stadium (just before lockdown), with groups of young lads chanting’Welsh not British, Welsh not British’ (ironically enough to the tune of the Big Ben chimes). I wonder how much the idea is gaining ground.
Well yes, Chris, but with the right leaders the UK could do all that.
More than happy to offload Wales and the Scoti, like a pair of ball and chains to England.
I’ve read this comment before and I’m astonished you still seem to believe this stuff.
There are many fallacies in your arguments, but here are three to get started:
Good though Swansea University doubtless is, I don’t think there’s too much dispute that the world class universities in London, Cambridge and Oxford are in a different league.
English farmland is also – on average – far more productive than Welsh.
Young Welsh people will continue to move to London for the best paid jobs (as will Scots).
Nothing against Wales, but your perspective on this seems badly warped.
With a small population of tax payers* and a hugely out-of-proportion national and local (un)civil service whose wagebill completely outstrips tax income. *of which I am one
You may have forgotten that Legion of Marxist/Socialist toads that emanated from the ‘Valleys’, but we haven’t.
A financial disconnect. With Wales? They’ll be fine, let em sink and let’s circle the waggons.
Devolution was destruction without insight.
We now have a schizophrenic national government, supposedly of one-mind but unable to reign in the alternative personalities
The rusting hulks of abandoned tidal power projects will litter your coast, as they have done everywhere this “real possibility” has been tried for any length of time.
Speaking of tourists, did you know that the two most touristed countries in the world, USA and France, are also the ones with the most nuclear power stations? Far less destructive than wind farms.
Unfortunately, as you acknowledge, Wales is governed by hopelessly woke crypto-communists, possessed of even lower levels of competence than those who have wrecked the economy of Scotland. I did notice a lot more Welsh nationalism on my last visit to watch the rugger in the Millennium Stadium (just before lockdown), with groups of young lads chanting’Welsh not British, Welsh not British’ (ironically enough to the tune of the Big Ben chimes). I wonder how much the idea is gaining ground.
This is exactly why Wales needs to separate from the UK. With a history of managing the devastation of industry, with a small population, with plenty of land for animal farming, with the real possibility of tidal power, with land for wind power, with 11,000,000 tourists per year, with the scientific knowledge in places like Swansea University, Wales can leave England behind.
When England is obsessed with the latest trend and fashion and gets ever more woke, Wales could easily be a net seller of energy to England for ever. It is possible to achieve this with leaders who are driven to succeed…..and there is the problem.