Dear Editor,
So Europe is going to "cut itself off" from Russian gas and find new sources? (Oliver Wright, The Independent, 9th May) That certainly sounds like wishful thinking but, more importantly, it is definitely music to the ears of the fracking fraternity and those investing in that industry.
So the question remains as to whether the conflict in Ukraine is an (un)fortunate co-incidence or whether the backroom-boys (of NATO, the US, the EU and the oil/gas industry) decided to use a little "meddling" in The Ukraine as a convenient stick with which to "prod the sleeping bear" (Russia) in order to create some turmoil and thereby get the European public on board the fracking band-wagon?
Maybe we'll never know but, anyway, who cares: The Russians are a convenient bogey-man so let's just frack that rock, pump that gas and get the cash-registers ringing!
God help our groundwater and the future generations who might want to drink it!
Regards
