tedglen wrote:
Let's just allow fracking up here in the grim north, and then keep all of the gas for ourseves.
When those southern softies get a bit chilly during the next winter cold snap, and want some of our gas to help warm their palaces, we can simply tell 'em to frack off.
That's almost my view.
The North, during my lifetime, has been greened and healed from coal extraction, largely at the expense of Northerners, rather than at the expense of all who benefitted from the electricity thus generated.
Those who live outside of areas that become designated for fracking should pay a whacking great premium to pay for the many types of damage to the fracked locale, which I would describe as the "truer" price.
Will it work like that?
Nope, they'll get a few tens of thousands to replace a playing field that was nicked from them in the past couple of decades.
Maybe.
If they ask nicely.
