The UK has its own
anti-fracking movement and this is done for good measure; UK property owners
don’t want anything to do with companies digging underneath their legally-purchased
and rightfully-owned land. According to Naomi Klein, the opposition against
fracking is based on the fact that “the UK government is colluding with energy
companies to force the right to frack underneath people’s homes.”
Energy analysts and economists say that the upcoming shale oil
and gas industry will bring down the prices of energy and guarantee the UK’s
flawless economic growth along with the rest of the world.
However, not many
are willing to pay the price of, let’s say, your house or two of your properties?
Even surveys show that many people oppose fracking
underneath their homes and rightfully so.
Farmers are the ones who will be dealt the biggest blow
because of fracking. If an area is labelled as a fracking site, their home
mortgages could be jeopardised simply because the equity could not pay for the
value of the mortgage because the land, as collateral, has its property value
blown to bonkers.
So much for democracy, but maybe the UK government needs to
fill in more pockets, fuelling the drive for immediate implementation of shale
gas and oil fracking to fulfil the needs of the 1%.
