Is fracking the answer to the energy crisis?

IT’S not surprising that during an energy crisis there are calls for fracking to be resumed in Britain. However, it’s unfair to make accusations of nimbyism towards those who have reservations. I live two miles from Little Plumpton where the fracking operation was closed down. When it was taking place, we had an earth tremor in this area. This may have been a coincidence, but I’ve never known a similar occurrence in the 48 years I’ve lived here. If fracking is resumed and I suffer property damage, will the mining company be at my door offering adequate compensation or will their first call be to their lawyers in an attempt to disclaim any responsibility? I think we all know the answer to that. LEONARD MACAULEY, Staining, Lancs.

THOSE who protested against fracking: thank you. Don’t moan about your heating bills.

A. NOAKES, Cannock, Staffs.

THE time is right to call the bluff of the foreign energy suppliers and provide our own for generations to come by a concerted effort towards fracking.

R. I. PALFREYMAN, Crewe, Cheshire.

IT BEGGARS belief that this UK Government has got us into this predicament. What did it allow to happen? Electricity firms sold off to

France, lack of power generation from small nuclear power stations, gas supply available under our feet by fracking not exploited. Wind power will never support our needs, as if there is no wind, or high wind speeds, turbines do not operate. The Government, in the form of Boris Johnson, is on a green crusade, closely followed by Nicola Sturgeon. This will drive us down a road which will end in excessive costs to the public.

A. RIDDELL, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.

WHY should progress be held up by a noisy, well-meaning bunch of cranks who object to everything new from roads and airport terminals to runways and fracking?

M. SAMSON, Worthing, W. Sussex.