From Jim Ainsworth
Rightly or wrongly, fracking seems to provoke many fears in those living near a drilling site (10 August, p 36): discharge of toxic chemicals, pollution of drinking water, earth tremors, messing up the countryside and so on.
If shale gas can be found underneath our feet, surely it can also be found beneath the sea and extracted there instead. So far I haven’t seen any mention of this. Am I missing something?
Kingsland, Herefordshire, UK
