Earlier, Tory leader Ruth Davidson had pushed the First Minister on fracking. Her question came the day after the first shipment of shale gas to Scotland. A tanker carrying ethane gas from the US docked at the Ineos refinery in Grangemouth on Wednesday.
Month: September 2016
Letters: It is folly for the Government to turn its back on fracking
THE arrival of the Ineos Insight in Grangemouth with its first cargo of US shale gas (“Ineos chief’s challenge: Visit US and see the success of fracking”, The Herald, September 28, and Letters, September 29) raises uncomfortable questions for the Scottish government.
Letters I: Which do Scots most value; food or its packaging? – Exploiting finite resources is like sawing off the branch we are sitting on
ONCE again two recent columns provided an interesting counterpoint, the heads and tails of one coin: ‘Global warming could kill off grasses’ (The National, Sep 28). Put the the lawn mower away: this is the life-sustaining wheat, rice, barley and other grasses, the basic food stuffs on which the planetary food chain, including us humans, is founded. The flip side was provided by Murdo Fraser’s Fracking could secure the future of Scotland (The National, Sep 27), in which he purported the economic benefits of the irrevocable release of environmentally damaging methane and carbon, which are the cause of the threat described above.
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Sturgeon refuses to endorse shale gas imports despite huge jobs boost
NICOLA Sturgeon has refused to endorse a £1.5 billion investment that will see weekly deliveries of American fracking gas arrive in Scotland, despite the new supply line protecting the livelihoods of 10,000 workers.
Scots reliant on fracked English gas to heat homes, says Davidson
Scotland may have to rely on shale gas fracked in England to keep homes heated, Ruth Davidson claimed yesterday, as she increased the pressure on the SNP over its energy policy.
Green groups in fracking ban plea as US shale gas shipment arrives
A tanker carrying 35,970 cubic yards (27,500 m3) of ethane from US shale fields is due to dock at Grangemouth, central Scotland, the refinery and petrochemicals plant owned by global chemical giant Ineos.
The rise and fall of fracking in Europe
This week in the UK, the Labour party announced plans to ban fracking in the UK if elected. Although heavily criticised by one of its biggest union donors, it marks a further shift in attitudes against shale gas in Europe.
Anti-fracking Nanas warn, “The oven gloves are off!”
Grandmother, Tina, explains, “Each of us has been involved in opposing fracking as residents but we came together under the banner of Nana in 2014. We’re here today because we’ve done just about everything that was in our democratic toolkit to do
https://uk.lush.com/article/anti-fracking-nanas-warn-oven-gloves-are?hsdbchsd
Anti-fracking measures in Colorado won’t make the ballot; deadline to protest comes and goes
You won’t be voting on an anti-fracking ballot initiative here in Colorado this November.
Even though the group turned in the required 98,000 signatures to get on the ballot, thousands of those signatures were quickly tossed by the Secretary of State’s Office because they appeared to be forged, and others weren’t registered voters.
Supporters of Anti-Fracking Ballot Measures in Colorado End Campaign
Supporters of two anti-fracking ballot measures in Colorado said they are dropping their 2016 campaign but will turn their attention to defeating a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder for future citizens’ initiatives to succeed.
http://www.bna.com/supporters-antifracking-ballot-n57982077692/