Fight the power of the frackers by changing energy supplier | Letters
by Letters from Environment | The Guardian on (#3M3KX)
Howard Hardman suggests dumping the big six to stop the drilling; Austen Lynch says Lancashire's fracking wells won't provide much of an energy dividend; Neil Anderson on France's tidal power station success
The news from Lancashire (Fracking firm Cuadrilla finishes drilling UK's first horizontal well, 4 April) came as a disappointment, particularly in the wake of the Observer business leader that suggested fracking companies were running into difficulties in the UK (Fracking industry blows hot and cold amid fuel shortages and false starts, 11 March).
Perhaps the easiest method of thwarting them would be for millions of energy customers to switch their accounts away from the big six and other suppliers of shale gas, and towards the smaller, often local energy companies who only supply gas from renewable sources and unfracked gas.
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