Re: Fracking halted after government pulls support
You should come and live in a South Yorkshire Pit village, it makes fracking look like digging up spuds....
Subsidence has damaged half the houses in the village and the slag heaps, that resembled the Alps, moved a couple of years ago and closed the railway line and had to be levelled and spread out over another six fields. Half the population died from chest complaints, and the other half stagger around the village in their seventies coughing coal dust and asbestos up.
In its heyday, fifty lorries a day trundled through the village, and every month or two, deceased miners had to be winched to the surface after being buried from a collapsing shaft or runaway wagon. We used to hate the sound of the siren that warned us of another accident, Dad was one of the victims, fortunately he survived and never went down the mine again.
About this time of year the air was thick with fog and dust hanging in the atmosphere from all the coal fires keeping homes warm, and every house was equipped with an outbuilding called a 'coal house' where winter supplies of fuel could be stored. Nobody complained because it was our livelyhood and we all lived in council houses anyway.
During the miners strike nobody worked and had to live off the goodwill and charity of each other, baking stuff and receiving handouts off the well to do...Anyone who did not withdraw their labour were called scabs and driven out of the village. I witnessed many skirmishes between what once were friends and work colleagues....
Fracking!.....You don't know the half of it...and if it means not going cap in hand to the French or the EU for our energy supplies, then I'm all for it.....