Channel Four on fracking
Apr 18, 2012
Bishop Hill in Energy: gas, Media

Channel Four TV covered the fracking story last night, but rather managed to blot its copybook by including the "flaming faucet" clip from the movie "Gasland".

Since this has long since been shown to be a fraud - there was methane present in the water long before fracking commenced - I queried the station's science editor, Tom Clarke, via Twitter. He didn't object:

Agreed. Included to show heated opposition to fracking in US. Which there is. Should have mentioned it was a campaign film.

To which I responded that they should have mentioned that it was misleading. I actually think this is a sufficiently big mistake that they should issue a correction, but I don't suppose this will be forthcoming.

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