That's good news TANKER now we'll be able to afford to get involved in fighting more wars around the world!

Lots of positives with the gas find (eg, will last the whole of the UK for over 50 years, 5,000 jobs could be created) but, because the gas is trapped in shale, there are lots of big negatives with it too.

The process of extracting the gas - known as fracking - involves using high pressure water to fracture the shale beds deep underground, releasing the gas trapped within them. Alleged side effects include contaminated drinking water and even gas jets erupting from your bath taps.

But it could just turn the whole of Lancashire into a kind of Dallas.

Wasn't their 1st attempt at fracking linked to a minor earthquake?

it is the traffic that they dont want the rest is ok .
it wil go ahead and good for the area and the uk

Maybe they will clean up their beach & sea from brown, to blue. You would then be able to swim with your mouth open without fear of copping a turd.

b/m yes blackpool is a dirty filthy place

Have you seen how many massage places there are.

I bet you have :-)

.

God bless America for my short profits today.

obama has destoyed the states he will be gone soon .

The states has destroyed the states long before Obama?

What can he do, or what would you do?

obama is a nutter

I would say he is a weak leader.

I love this.

Greg Philo, the research director of Glasgow University Media Unit, has called for much tougher action. He claimed last year that a one-off 20% tax on the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the UK would raise 800 billion.

Yes good idea.

Guys like this make me sick.
Billionaire retail boss Phillip Green also saw his tax affairs hit the spotlight last year after it emerged he saved millions of pounds in tax by paying a 1.2 billion dividend into an offshore vehicle registered to his wife in Monaco.

TANKER FOR PRESIDENT?

.

Even Shrek is at it.

Earlier this year a Sunday Times investigation found that dozens of top level footballers including Wayne Rooney were saving hundred of thousands of pounds a year using shell companies to take payments for "image rights" - that is, earnings from merchandising.

USA.