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by cloutchaser 1574 days ago
Greens (or just governments in power) need to make a choice now politically - do they accept that shale and fracking is a necessary bad to avoid supporting a mad dictator killing thousands of ukranians, or do they think the evil of fracking is worse.

The telegraph had an article a few days ago about how if all fracking was restarted, OPEC was persuaded to flood the market, and consumers took some restrictions (90km/h temporary speed limit in europe for example), we could be off Russian energy by the end of the year.

Question is, is there enough political will to do it.