These celebs have got some questions about fracking
The celebs took selfies holding up their questions for Minister for Energy Matthew Hancock concerning fracking – the controversial process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground to release natural gas from shale rock.
The campaign is being spearheaded by designer Dame Vivienne Westwood and her businessman son Joe Corre.
In her selfie, Paloma Faith asked: “How can you be sure that our health will not be put at risk by fracking?”
The singer commented that she was “really concerned about the health risks to the population and the long-term repercussions”.
Singer Duffy asks Matthew Hancock if he will attend a Talk Fracking debate to address the public’s concerns.
She also said: “I would like to call for a National Moratorium. A ‘stop the clock’. No more intrusive fracking until we, as a country, can assess whether this is the most sustainable, economic and safest source of energy.”
Designer Vivienne Westwood is taking a key part in the campaign.
She said: ”MyFrackingQuestions is asking the key questions that the public has told us they want answered definitively by the current government.
We are acting now to empower the next generation, preventing them from having to deal with the potentially devastating effects of fracking should it go ahead in this country - from watching the economy crash to house prices nose-diving by 25 percent.”
She added: “This debate belongs to the British people but without any solid and reliable information, they cannot take part in this most critical of conversations. Until these questions are answered and until there is open public debate, there can be no social license and no democratic mandate.”
Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie is on board too. In his photo he raises concerns about whether or not we can trust the government on fracking when there are conflicts of interest.
“Why is Lord Brown allowed to advise David Cameron on energy policy when he is a major shareholder in the fracking company Cuadrilla? Isn’t this a conflict of interest? Or is corporate corruption at the heart of the British government just business as usual?” he said.
Meanwhile Jools Holland wants to know if fracking will contaminate British water.
The website, launched by Talk Fracking, allows the public to log on and ask their fracking questions relating to health, energy security, water, climate change, and economic benefits directly to the energy minister.
Talk Fracking is calling for more independent debate into the potential dangers of the industry and counts Sir Paul McCartney, Russell Brand, Nick Grimshaw and Thom Yorke among its supporters.
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