UK Prime Minister David Cameron has used the Hague talks on the Crimea crisis to stress that fracking is “good” for his country, in an apparent attempt to use fears about EU dependence on Russian gas to promote his government’s pro-fracking agenda.
The British Prime Minister placed the popular blame with “a lack of understanding” of the process, believing that once the wells are up and running, the “uncertainties and concerns” people had would go away and one would hear “more directly from local people about what [hydraulic fracturing] has meant for their communities.”
The need for fracking is greater than ever, Cameron said at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, saying that Russian behavior in Ukraine didn’t go as planned and a search for alternate sources needed to be at the top of Europe’s energy agenda, Reuters reports.
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