From Brian Tagg
Bryn Glover makes an interesting suggestion that shale gas deposits are best left undiscovered (30 August, p 31), but his letter contains a serious omission. He suggests that power-hungry politicians will fall over themselves to help profit-hungry petroleum companies in their search for methane.
The omission is that we power-hungry consumers will happily pay for the extracted gas; if we didn’t no one would be looking in the first place.
Taunton, Somerset, UK
