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Letter: Burning issue

Published 21 August 2013

From Roger Taylor

All we will do with “fracked” gas is use it to continue avoiding dealing with climate change. So there is one fundamental aspect we need to address. We need to turn to our children and say, “So that we can save a few pennies on our bills, we’ll be using all the shale gas as prodigally as we use everything else, so there will be none left for you and your children. Sorry about that.”
Meols, Wirral, UK

Issue no. 2931 published 24 August 2013

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