Church of England wades into fracking debate

From England-

The Anglican Diocese of Blackburn has released a pamphlet warning their Lancaster flock of the potential dangers of hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking.  

“The time we spend thinking, praying and acting now to protect our drinking water and the rest of God’s glorious Creation cannot compare with the time succeeding generations could potentially spend trying to make good what will likely happen if we in the church remain uninformed and silent,” reads the pamphlet.

Fracking, the process of drilling and injecting high pressure fluid into the ground to fracture shale rocks and release their natural gases, is certainly contentious to the environmentally conscious, risking contaminating water reserves and releasing methane into the earth’s atmosphere.

The pamphlet goes as far as to claim that fracking is “a choice between economic gain and a healthy environment” and that we must be wary of the long-term consequences before being seduced by the “temptation” of a “gas drilling bonanza”.

However, despite the somewhat partisan tone, a spokesman for the Blackburn Diocese is adamant that this is not propaganda bent on persuading parishioners away from the technology, but they are rather meeting their “obligation, under God, to bring a different perspective into the debate”.

More here-

http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2013/08/14/church-of-england-wades-into-fracking-debate/