{"id":11775,"date":"2015-09-21T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11775"},"modified":"2024-07-04T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:37:10","slug":"no-fracking-under-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11775","title":{"rendered":"No Fracking Under My Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NoFrackUnderMyHome.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11776\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NoFrackUnderMyHome-300x225.png\" alt=\"No Fracking Under My Home\" width=\"783\" height=\"587\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the UK, the ASA just banned a Greenpeace anti-fracking ad!<br \/>\nHere are the facts:<br \/>\nA few months ago we published a newspaper ad stating: &#8220;Experts agree &#8211; [fracking] won&#8217;t cut our energy bills.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe ASA asked for evidence to back up the claim &#8212; so we submitted statements from 22 experts and commentators including leading academics, the energy secretary Ed Davey, and even quotes from fracking firm Cuadrilla.<br \/>\nThis wasn&#8217;t enough for the ASA and they still said the ad was misleading. But the only evidence they could provide to back that up?&#8230; A quote from the prime minister.<br \/>\nOh and one other thing&#8230; the chair of the ASA, Lord Chris Smith, happens to be the head of the Task Force on Shale Gas (a group funded by the fracking industry).<br \/>\nTotally unbiased, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, the ASA just banned a Greenpeace anti-fracking ad! Here are the facts: A few months ago we published a newspaper ad stating: &#8220;Experts agree &#8211; [fracking] won&#8217;t cut our energy bills.&#8221; The ASA asked for evidence to back up the claim &#8212; so we submitted statements from 22 experts and commentators including &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=11775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Fracking Under My Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53422,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions\/53422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}