Guardian: Andrew Simms: 'Fracking represents real and substantial risks to people and the environment'
Shale gas and tar sands are big, sticky and controversial. Energy-intensive and messy to extract, the fossil fuel industry sees them as a buffer during the dying days of conventional cheap oil. In Canada, the debate has taken an almost hallucinatory turn, rightwing blow-hard political activists have begun promoting tar sands as "ethical oil". The intellectual gymnastics are achieved by implying that the......
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Is fracking environmentally friendly
Posted by Guardian: Andrew Simms and Rob Lyons on September 23rd, 2011
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