Hello Dave. You just got fracked. http://t.co/KCvX5MJzG9 pic.twitter.com/2a46Cec15l
— Greenpeace UK (@GreenpeaceUK) June 4, 2014
Last year Greenpeace turned up at George Osborne’s home in Tatton to mock up a huge would-be fracking operation, today they are giving the PM similar treatment. Professor Stephen Hesselbo, of Oxford University’s Earth Sciences department, explains why the science isn’t on Greenpeace’s side:
“It has been known for more than 100 years that the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire region is underlain by a variety of sedimentary rocks types, including shale, and locally they have generated gas.”
They are standing in the way of the UK’s dash for gas…