{"id":2892,"date":"2016-09-19T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:32:06","slug":"fracking-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/2016\/09\/19\/fracking-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fracking Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/files\/2016\/09\/fracking-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2914 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/files\/2016\/09\/fracking-2.png\" alt=\"fracking-2\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, we held our debate on fracking.\u00a0 Each of you had to take on the role of a member of a community where a company were proposing to start fracking. The roles were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the owner of a fracking company<\/li>\n<li>an unemployed person<\/li>\n<li>a member of the Green Party<\/li>\n<li>a member of the Conservative Party<\/li>\n<li>a member of the community whose garden would be disturbed<\/li>\n<li>the owner of a gas company<\/li>\n<li>the owner of a solar energy company<\/li>\n<li>the water company<\/li>\n<li>yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each group has to share their notes and research on fracking and decide if their character would be &#8216;for&#8217; or &#8216;against&#8217; the fracking company starting up in Bishopton. They had to decide on a list of arguments and counter-arguments to share during the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had the opportunity to share their view (in character) and then they could call on specific people to question or put their point across further. I was pleased to see\u00a0 that the majority took the debate seriously and showed a good understanding of fracking and its advantages and disadvantages.\u00a0Poor Amy and Grace who were representing the Conservative Party took quite a verbal bashing from a lot\u00a0of people but managed to stand their ground and\u00a0argue their case. One member of the fracking company (no names)\u00a0made a little error in judgement and let slip they were telling a white lie! Alex, another member of the fracking company did a\u00a0good\u00a0job of explaining his\u00a0way\u00a0out of\u00a0that one!<\/p>\n<p>See below for the positives and negatives mentioned and some photos of the passionate debate taking place.<\/p>\n<table width=\"640\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"320\"><b>Positives<\/b><\/td>\n<td width=\"320\"><b>Negatives<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"320\">Unleashes trapped fossil fuels<\/td>\n<td width=\"320\">Uses lots of water<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"320\">Cheap to produce energy<\/td>\n<td width=\"320\">Some water is trapped underground which we can never get back<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"320\">Creates jobs<\/td>\n<td width=\"320\">Creates waste water (with chemicals that cannot be untreated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"320\">More fuel means gas costs are reduced<\/td>\n<td width=\"320\">The drilling can cause small earthquakes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"320\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"320\">The waste water contains toxins that may poison or cause cancer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, we held our debate on fracking.\u00a0 Each of you had to take on the role of a member of a community where a company were proposing to start fracking. The roles were: the owner of a fracking company an unemployed person a member of the Green Party a member of the Conservative Party &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/2016\/09\/19\/fracking-debate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fracking Debate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[640,1062],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photos","tag-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/bishopton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}