My second visit to Barton Moss frack off camp, Thursday 6th February 2014
This time I took my camera, I wanted to visualize how I saw it, the people and the things that had some impact on me. What I saw was again something that hit me as something bigger than myself. Everyone that was at that site had a reason to be there, their emotions were very high, be it scared, excited, frustrated, angry, upset, confused, all these emotions had a point to make about the whole story.
I am still unsure as to how I feel about the fracking, part of me is still very wary of it. Each time I look up different view points or talk to new people my feeling change and vary so much. When I talked to my friends about the site and the issues that I have witnessed and been told about, they questioned it, we talked, we laughed, we argued, but we all agreed that there was so much unknown, so many different view points that it was hard to make a decision on how we truly felt about it. This made me see that this may be how most people feel see fracking, it is something on the news or read about but they cannot connect it to them.
Some people just don’t care about the fracking, they feel that it has no impact on their everyday life, some say ‘the government wouldn’t let it happen if it was that dangerous’, others feel that it’s a good idea, they say ‘we need fuel and this is an easy way of getting it’, many say, ‘I just don’t know enough about it to be even able to have an idea of what’s going on’. others think, ‘the camp is full of trouble makers who can’t be bothered to get a job or live the real life’. All these comments ask more questions than answer the problem.
There are many sides to this debate, as far as I can see, there is no good or bad sides, just people, people acting in ways in which they think is right for their view point. There is just too much going on at once, like so many things, the morality of our country is being questioned by both sides and both are using that morality as their standpoint. What will happen in the future of the fracking in our land, I don’t know, but I know that this conversation has not even mid way.
What is good is that the more we talk about it, the more we have an open conversation about it, the more people can make an informed choice on what will happen to the land we live on. Then we can all work together for the better and everyone can see why this is an issue not about fuel but about our morals. It is about the morals of every human, not just the politicians, how we make decisions and how we support our people to be involved in that democratic process.
