News has broken recently about proposals for ‘Fracking’, a highly damaging and carbon intensive process to extract natural gas, to take place near to the city of Bath. The proposals are particularly worrying given they are for sites in the Mendips, where the Bath spring water is thought to originate - fracking (short for Hydraulic Fracturing) has a reputation for contaminating water sources.
The world-famous hot springs of the city of Bath may be threatened by fracking, the controversial technique for exploiting underground supplies of shale gas, the Government was told yesterday.
Bath and North East Somerset Council sounded the alarm to ministers about licences to use the technique, which involves fracturing rock formations by pumping in liquids at high pressure, that have been granted to two companies prospecting for gas in the Mendip Hills to the south of the city.
The above article from The Independent explains the situation. What do you think? Green Vision will hold a meeting on it in the near future so local young people can discuss what the proposal will mean and whether we want to campaign together against it.
At the Bath Youth Climate Summit in June, Guy Shrubsole ran a workshop on fracking. This was very well received and many of the attendees left feeling concerned about the issue and keen to do something against it. Little did we expect we would soon be needing the expertise and experience Guy shared with us.
