Ondanks flink wat oppositie heeft de Schotse regering Sturgeon besloten dat er geen schaliegas en oliewinning zal plaatsvinden middels fracken. Vanmiddag maakte de Schotse premier Nicola Sturgeon* in het Schotse parlement bekend dat er geen addertje onder het gras zit en er geen vergunningen afgegeven zullen worden, zelfs niet meer voor proefboringen, fracken is verboden! Dit zwaar tegen de zin van Ineos, die al had geïnvesteerd voor het fracken in Grangemouth.
De Schotse regering heeft het publiek gevraagd zich uit te laten over fracken en een groot aantal mensen heeft laten weten tegen te zijn. Daarnaast bleek uit onderzoek dat de economie er amper of geen baat bij zou hebben, KPMG berekende een winst van 0,1%, bijzonder weinig dus en bovendien is dat cijfer nog twijfelachtig.
In Schotland is er zelden gebrek aan wind en dat wil de Schotse regering verder uitbouwen, i.p.v. in te zetten op fossiele brandstoffen die het leven op aarde langzaam maar zeker onmogelijk maken. Food and Waterwatch, dat zich van meet af aan heeft verzet tegen fracken, riep de VS en de landelijke regering in Londen op hetzelfde te doen.
Daarover gesproken, gisteren voerde de ‘onafhankelijke’ regeringsgetrouwe BBC World Service een ‘deskundige’ op, die verklaarde dat er totaal niets mis is met schaliegas en schalie-oliewinning……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Nu maar hopen, dat het nu al onzalige Rutte 3 niet toch besluit fracken hier wel toe te staan………
Despite
Opposition, Scotland Announces Fracking Ban — Calls for US to Do
the Same
In
a four-month public comment period, 99 percent of the 65,000 Scots
who responded expressed opposition to fracking. (Photo: Friends of
the Earth Scotland/Flickr/cc)
October
3, 2017 at 11:06 am
Written
by Julia
Conley
“We
have so much wind and wave power that it is retrograde in the extreme
to lend any support to the fracking industry.”
(COMMONDREAMS) — Environmental
groups from around the world applauded Scotland on Tuesday for its
decision to ban fracking, following
an overwhelming public outcry against the practice—and called for
the United States and the rest of the United Kingdom to follow suit.
The Scottish government held a public comment period in recent months on fracking, attracting about 65,000 responses—the majority of which came from people in communities where the natural gas extraction would take place. An overwhelming 99 percent of Scots who participated were opposed to the practice.
Another added that the practice was “likely to be entirely detrimental as Scotland’s international reputation as an innovator in design and engineering projects is undermined by our agreement to proceed with fracking…We have so much wind and wave power that it is retrograde in the extreme to lend any support to the fracking industry.”
Food
and Water Watch gave credit to the Scottish people for standing up to
corporate entities that supported fracking. “Giant energy company
Ineos, which invested heavily in its Scottish facility at
Grangemouth, fought hard against this ban, even threatening to
explore legal action against the government if it passed,” said
executive director Wenonah Hauter in a statement.
“But people power prevailed, and it will continue to prevail. We
can’t let companies like ExxonMobil and Ineos stop the inevitable
march towards clean energy. Bold and swift policy change is our only
hope for addressing our climate goals. We applaud the Scottish
government for doing what’s right for people and the planet.
Scotland’s
decision leaves its neighbors, England and Wales, alone in their
embrace of fracking.
“With
all our nearest neighbours having banned or halted fracking, our
government is increasingly out on a limb in pursuing it in
England,” said Rose
Dickinson of Friends of the Earth.
Hauter
also called on the U.K. as well as the U.S. to follow in Scotland’s
footsteps.
“Banning
fracking is a necessary step towards beating the worst effects of
climate chaos, and the U.K. and the U.S. should follow Scotland’s
example,” she said. “In the U.S., we already have the means to
start moving off of fracking swiftly—the Off Fossil Fuels For a
Better Future Act, which would mandate a just transition to 100
percent clean renewable energy by 2035, starting with 80 percent
within the next 10 years.”
As
in Scotland, public opinion in the UK and the US is not in fracking’s
favor, despite officials’ insistence that the practice creates jobs
and revenue. A poll by
England’s Business and Energy Department this summer found that
only 16 percent of citizens support fracking, down from 21 percent
last year.
In
the U.S., opinions are more evenly split, but a 2016 Gallup
poll found that
51 percent of Americans oppose fracking, while 36 percent support it.
By Julia
Conley / Creative
Commons / Common
Dreams / Report
a typo
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* Nicola Sturgeon, niet mijn politieke keus, maar wel één van de beste premiers die er zijn en die er in het verleden waren. Ze heeft een fenomenale kennis van allerlei zaken en vergeleken met Rutte, is deze laatste een slechte voorzitter van een kleuterklas.