Fracking must not go ahead

AN open letter to Carwyn Jones, First Minister:

The latest IPCC report states quite clearly that climate change is set to inflict “severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts” on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut sharply and rapidly.

This report is the result of the collaboration of thousands of scientists and is the most important assessment of global warming yet published. It is clear and detailed. More burning of fossil fuels will place too many risks on the ecological system which supports humanity. Fracking will mean more burning, and we would be unwise to even consider taking such a foolhardy risk.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General has sent a message to the investors of large pension funds, asking them to divest from fossil fuels.

Here in Wales we can either increase the extraction of fossil fuels, or remove them from the equation completely. We should take the historic opportunity to do the latter.

Fracking sites are planned all over Wales, and the Welsh Government has full jurisdiction over the planning process, we therefore ask that you use your authority to stop the process of fracking in its tracks.

The arguments over safety, contamination and pollution should be enough to stop this insidious process industrialising our countryside, but the IPCC report lays it on the line: burning more fossil fuels will cause irrevocable damage and increase the pace of climate change...
http://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/letters/11600782.Fracking_must_not_go_ahead/

The only alternative to Fracking is Atomic Power or possibly wave power, or would you you like to sit around in the dark, eat raw food and freeze? America has had Fracking for some years,reducing power bills by 50% or more. There may be problems but they will have to be solved, otherwise we will be in the brown stuff.