IN CONTINUING to peddle the myth that ‘fracking’ causes earthquakes, Friends of the Earth must call into question the basic integrity and honesty of its core prospectus.
Long ago proven is the fact that ‘fracking’ does not cause earthquakes but occasional slight tremors, these apparently described as being routinely familiar to people who live/work beside busy urban bus routes or roads transited by the big HGVs en route to the supermarkets whilst thus delivering the ‘bread and meat’ for your table.
Seeking to ban ‘fracking’ on this pretext has also been fittingly compared to enacting fatuous parliamentary legislation to ban the slamming of wooden doors (though here one must not speak too soon as recently the usual suspects have again accomplished something similar with their personal ‘alcohol units’ obsession).
If the organisation styling itself ‘Friends of the Earth’ seeks to make a positive contribution to the debate, let it do so in an adult, accurate and truthful manner.
Paddy Keenan, Ward Close, Andover.
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