No fracking here (From York Press)

How excellent!

I am pleased my neighbors in York will soon have a policy on something that will never happen within its boundaries.

I'm sure they were worried day and night that a huge industrial fracking complex might spring up in Woodthorpe or the middle of Parliament Street. Now they can be at ease and worry about less important things like paying bills and finding jobs.

Perhaps next Cllr Semlyen could ask that York Council spend money on formulating a policy on banning shark attacks in the city. Shark attacks are very serious, I saw a film about a shark attack called Jaws which was so informative that they made a sequel. It documented worrying effects, including damage to shipping, the loss of limbs and even, potentially, death.

Though shark attacks may not take place within York’s boundaries, I am extremely concerned because... it's sharks, people! SHARKS!

I'm pleased the councillor raised this.

Unlike AJButler, I think most people will realise that fracking outside the city (even many miles away) will inevitably have an impact inside the city.

Take a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-14432401 for a look at both sides of the argument and start to develop an informed opinion.

I tend towards Coun Semlyen's view, but am conscious I need to know more, and am sure the council does too.

"AT YORK’S full council meeting on October 11, I put a question on hydrolic shale gas fracturing to the member with planning responsibilities."

Good on you, sweetheart. Well done for asking a question. You should write to The Press and tell everyone about it!

And if some company sets up a hydraulic, (note the spelling), fracking plant outside the COYC boundary, what is Calamity James & Co going to do about it?

I'm reminded of how the "Socialist Republic" of South Yorkshire once declared itself a "nuclear free zone", in the hope that the Soviets would re-target their missiles perhaps?

Come on, fracking sharks can exceed the 20 mph speed limit with ease. Big problem for people swimming in the Ouse.

Show some respect!

20 mph is about the limit of this Councillor. Since the extraction of shale gas began, much has been learned to extract the energy safely. We have all seen the cost of our energy rise, even when the wholesale price comes down.
Like in the USA, Shale gas will not only give the UK a secure energy source it will also give us cheaper energy for decades to come. How dare these people say we can't have that!
Anyway, the CoYC invested in a wind turbine that has since come down and nobody, not even Andy D wants to mention it. Why the secret?

ColdAsChristmas wrote:
20 mph is about the limit of this Councillor. Since the extraction of shale gas began, much has been learned to extract the energy safely. We have all seen the cost of our energy rise, even when the wholesale price comes down.
Like in the USA, Shale gas will not only give the UK a secure energy source it will also give us cheaper energy for decades to come. How dare these people say we can't have that!
Anyway, the CoYC invested in a wind turbine that has since come down and nobody, not even Andy D wants to mention it. Why the secret?

ColdAsChristmas wrote:

Shale gas will not only give the UK a secure energy source it will also give us cheaper energy for decades to come. How dare these people say we can't have that!

this is the true problem
who will buy solar panels whilst there's cheap gas available

Anna Semlyen is just a councillor protecting her own interests

It seems that many people don't give a frack about fracking..... what the frack is that about ? !!!!! LOL

Ichabod76 wrote:

ColdAsChristmas wrote:
20 mph is about the limit of this Councillor. Since the extraction of shale gas began, much has been learned to extract the energy safely. We have all seen the cost of our energy rise, even when the wholesale price comes down.
Like in the USA, Shale gas will not only give the UK a secure energy source it will also give us cheaper energy for decades to come. How dare these people say we can't have that!
Anyway, the CoYC invested in a wind turbine that has since come down and nobody, not even Andy D wants to mention it. Why the secret?

ColdAsChristmas wrote:

Shale gas will not only give the UK a secure energy source it will also give us cheaper energy for decades to come. How dare these people say we can't have that!

this is the true problem
who will buy solar panels whilst there's cheap gas available

Anna Semlyen is just a councillor protecting her own interests

The reason being that this expands into the whole 'climate change' and 'eco' con. If we can get energy from shale gas, then renewables look even more pathetic, and then they are not purchased and the country as a whole is seen to not be buying into the america-led scam to get everybody paying higher 'green taxes' and more on fuel prices so as to hide what is actually causing our weather patterns to change.

Of course if you believe climate change is all a big conspiracy to raise more taxes fracking makes sense, just as long as it doesnt take place under your house! However if you accept the science that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is leading to more extreme weather, melting ice and rising sea levels then fracking is a crazy idea, akin to investing in Leeman Brothers just before the financial crash.Of course there are some who take the selfish attitude that if global warming is happening they live high enough above the floodplain not to worry, but then unless they are going to start growing all their own food perhaps they should take the rise in food and energy prices and changes to our weather more seriously.

Councillor Anna Semlyen facing inquiry

10:17am Friday 10th June 2011 in News By Mark Stead,

Anna Semlyen
A YORK councillor is being investigated after securing public money to stage an eco-home event – while earning £200 a time from a solar panel firm.

Labour’s Anna Semlyen was elected last month to represent Dringhouses and Woodthorpe on City of York Council. She emailed her fellow councillors to invite them to visit her Fishergate home to see how she has cut her CO2 emissions by 50 per cent.

The event is being funded through the local Fishergate ward committee, but Coun Semlyen’s register of interests, which requires a councillor to declare gifts or hospitality over £25, shows she receives “£200 per referral of customer of solar panels”.

The payments are from a firm in West Yorkshire.

Same old Labour, and she's still at it, this is where she lives.

1:03pm Saturday 1st September 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

FUEL prices are rising. I would like to invite people to see how solid wall insulation and solar panels have cut my fuel bills by 50 per cent in a Victorian end-terrace house.

Despite the falling feed in tariff rates, the cost of the panels has fallen dramatically, so this is still a good deal.

Come to an open house between 3.30pm and 5pm on Sunday, September 16, at the address below. The event is free; just drop in.

Graham Smith, 24 Grange Street, York

I see greenmonkey can't answer why York Councils wind turbine has gone.
I reckon shale gas would be more reliable than that. Anyway, since when have CoYC been bothered about what they put outside residents back yards?
Ice melts every summer and what has been lost this Summer in the Arctic has been made up for with ice gain in the Antarctic.
As for sea levels rising, I think Algore mentioned 20 feet, well it ain't going to happen. Do you know just how tiny the amount of CO2 is in the atmosphere. Man made CO2 is less than 4% of the total or 16 parts per million. Now, why has our wind turbine gone?