Protests continue over UK fracking decision

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has announced financial incentives for shale gas extraction, the controversial energy source known as 'fracking'.

Local authorities will now be allowed to keep one hundred percent of their local tax on fracking sites, twice as much as for other businesses.

This has caused an uproar among the anti-fracking protesters.

Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports from Barton Moss.

[colourmegone]

Yet again Mr Cameron shows his contempt for the people of Britain. The "benefits" of fracking are well known, pollution of ground water and earthquakes to name but two. The only benefits to accrue to anyone will those given by the taxpayer to the firms represented by the lobbyists who bought him. It's about time to stop giving massive subsidies to oil companies the failed nuclear industry and start seriously researching alternatives.

[MrSpycore]

Britain needs to get physical with Fracking and anything associated with it.

[tteggel]

How is it that a certain person called David Cameron can step out and say, he's giving bonuses to the councils if they are prepared to let fracking continue this is just one man. He never asks the people of England about any decisions. He just makes decisions for the banks and the corporations when are the British people going to make him answer for some of these awful decisions he make

[UkTruthSeeker]

He will eat his own words when something goes wrong how can he think hes right when theres so much proof out there the evil man

[Cabronosidad]

Disgraceful. Cameron lying like a rug as usual.

[tteggel]

Cameron always taking back handers the public need to start showing the
government who makes the rules here, and as for the comment on the protesters
don't have a chance, I will say it again are you the new bbc !!!!

[maTzeprei]

our current economy model needs a way to implement environmental pollution into the costs of production

- a global tax for environmental pollution could be the answer
- a global tax is hard to establish so you could establish it at first in your own economy in addition you could increase the custom fees for states who dont taxate environmental pollution so they dont get a advantage on your market

its a shame that short term effects like cheap power through fracking outweights the long term effects of a polluted environment

//just a thoght

[kostas]

haha well surely ARABIAN Al Jazeera would be against fracking

[MichaelLantz]

Should Fracking be allowed in Hyde Park?