Why The Telegraph should sack Louise Gray

Greenie Louise Gray masquerades as a straight reporter but she doesn’t even do it as well as the BBC’s Roger Harrabin.

Today Louise Gray continues to get away with her biased coverage of fracking. Her second word is “controversial”. She starts with her green mates’ points, linking to their claims that “hydraulic fracturing causes earthquakes” (recently rebutted but greenie Louise doesn’t want to tell you that) and “contaminates drinking water” (probably a lie, but greenie Gray doesn’t want to tell you that either).

Then she lists more of her mates’ concerns. And then, at last, the point of the report.

But despite these concerns [my emphasis], a new report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), said shale gas can be part of the energy mix.

She goes on to say Mr Kennedy was also cautious about the impacts on the landscape of drilling thousands of wells. Hang on … has Louise overlooked recent reports (see here and here) suggesting that technology for directional drilling can allow wells to go off about 10 kilometers sideways in all directions from one pad?

And so she continues, focusing on carbon (that’s lifegiving carbon dioxide to you and me) and, in her biased way, on the environment, with never a word about the economic case for shale gas and shale oil. If there wasn’t an economic case for it, we wouldn’t even be considering it, would we.

Quite why Telegraph readers should have to put up with this greenie masquerading as a reporter continues to baffle me.

The Telegraph should get a straight environmental reporter and sack Louise Gray.