It is no wonder we are against most of these projects!
If you live in the USA, and they find something under your land, it belongs to you, but over here the rich purloin the profits.

Good point Wrinkly - I wonder how many people would refuse, say, £2m to have that going on near them?

No-one! They would accept it and bugger off to pastures new now wouldn't they - if they had any sense anyways .

I will continue to desist from decision making when I know I don't have all the facts - I'll leave that to the knee-jerkers.

Lead - you don't give concentrations so I've looked up the closest I can think of to this: http://www.water.org.uk/static/files...-_Water_UK.pdf

I can't be bothered to answer each one in detail but I will say that lead, uranium, mercury, ethylene glycol, radium, methanol, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde are already in use in various manufacturing processes and we are already exposed to many of those elements because they occur naturally. I don't imagine that the industries will deliberately poison people - why would they? They would soon go out of business if that proved to be the case and who would hire them after that? It would be professional suicide to be so careless.



But those elements come from the ground anyway and already occur naturally in rivers and the sea.

As I have said, I am not an expert and I'm not in a position to make informed decisions about whether these companies will handle this professionally or not.

However, I have no desire to turn into a 'Chicken Little' and run around proclaiming that the sky is about to fall in!

The protesters claim the government aren't listening, they never do. The arrest of Caroline Lucas MP and others was inevitable.

The protesters claim the government aren't listening, they never do. The arrest of Caroline Lucas MP and others was inevitable.