Subsidised Tony Bosworth lies and lies and lies

Liar Tony Bosworth from fake charity Friends of the Earth (Friends of the Earth Europe receives €1.2 million from the EU) lies today:

Fracking is dirty, unnecessary and a risk to our climate and environment.

Dirtier than other ways of extracting fossil fuels, which we need for reliable power supplies? No. Unnecessary? Only if you’re happy to be priced out of world markets because dear energy is making your goods too expensive. A risk to our climate and environment? How would that work? For what it’s worth, carbon dioxide emissions have fallen in the US, where most of the recent fracking has taken place.

Liar Tony Bosworth continues that “we should be investing in safe, clean energy from the wind, waves and sun”. So is that reliable? No – they need backup from conventional power stations. Affordable? No, at least twice the price of power from fossil fuels – a price which will probably fall in the medium term.

Are voters happy with unnecessarily high energy bills? No. Are voters happy with the spread of wind turbines? No.

But liar Bosworth continues to peddle his moonshine, subsidised by taxpayers.

Cuadrilla’s investigations near Balcombe will specifically not include fracking.

So why does the BBC’s report of this frack-free project conclude by giving Bosworth three paragraphs to criticise … fracking?

Could it be that the BBC we are forced to pay for is biased?