I accept that reservation Matt, but where the exploitation is near to habitation in the US the same concerns have been expressed and objections mollified.

And you could not have put the second pint more clearly. It both appals me sand exasperates me that our excuse for a government seems so utterley oblivious to the fact that unless they do something pretty damn quick we will be importing most of our energy from places we would rather not in a very few years time.