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Why do we want more gas? For a long gas that we could find in Spain with the fracking (yet to be assessed) the energy resources we have in abundance are the renewable energies. These are technologies that we already have and with a technological and business sector willing to take advantage of them. Studies show that we can achieve an energy system based entirely on renewable, it is absurd embark on a new search for other fossil fuels with potential serious impacts to the planet. In addition, there is a risk of diverting resources and efforts that should go toward renewable energy and energy efficiency. The promoters of the fracking promise significant benefits even for the environment. But behind it lies a purely economic issue, of which there are already complaints by speculation to be creating a bubble with which to do business. Although the "fracking" would be successful, the only thing that would occur is prolong the dependence on fossil fuels, which are limited and inconsistent with the climate. The more fossil fuel burn, the greater will be the effects of climate change.

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What economic impact does the fracking in the State? What type of regulatory oversight exists in the State? Has there been sufficient research on the environmental risks to assess one hundred per cent with the impact of the fracking in public health and safety?

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To produce 180 bcm are needed between 2600 to 3000 wells. A platform of 6 wells needed between 4000 to 6000 truck movements. 180 bcm come at a cost of between 2 and 3 millions.

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The phenomenon of gas shale has been funded primarily with equity and debt. At this point, more debt and creating a situation less feasible for many companies. The business model of the hydraulic fracture in the period 2009-2012 was based on a huge flow of investment funds attracted by the promises of high prices for natural gas. But at the same time, the yields of the gas wells of the schists were considerably lower than expected, that's why it has become a high risk business. The boom of the shale gas was profitable in 2009, but now it is a little late to win in this business. Many countries in Western Europe have rejected the projects of removal of gas from shale to be unrealistic despite the prices in Europe of the energy are twice that in the United States. Germany has created a strong resistance to the hydraulic fracture. The French President Hollande has blocked the initiatives of gas exploitation in shale. Europe must forget their fantasies of a repetition of a energetic boom, as in the United States. Poland: If wells are drilled to thousands of meters below the earth, the water will be affected and there will be no more life in our fields. We could end without water and gas.

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The cost of extraction is higher than expected, which reduces the profitability and forcing companies to borrow to continue investing in new wells. If their balance sheets do not improve, the future of the fracking might not be as bright as expected. Independent producers of shale gas in the US estimated that in 2014 for every dollar they make from the sale of this gas will have invested $1.5 for its drilling and extraction. In contrast, ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the world, need only invest 68 cents for every dollar he get from income. A sustained fall in oil prices below 85 dollars/barrel would make this technique was no longer profitable. Companies spend to this type of gas could endure some time if the price of a barrel is placed below $85, but if you keep a prolonged slump in prices could curb this type of tooth extractions. Investors are worried about debt levels and how they are going to continue to finance the spending. Sold the motorcycle of the fracking is going to be a source of wealth and employment and try to attract investors to the business. This is leaving aside the most important, our health and the environment.

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The bet by the non-conventional natural gas extracted using hydraulic fracture is a wrong decision, energetically, economically and strategically wrong. In the future will be even lower, which will bring the drilling of new wells in a crazy attempt to extract gas, with an increasing price. The total replacement or significant of conventional fossil fuels by non-conventional is impossible, since they could not sustain energetically the actual society type. This will result in the economic viability of the deposits themselves are impaired: the bubble of the hydraulic fracture broke out. Although many wells might have to shut down for economic reasons, the environmental consequences will survive for centuries, in the form of pollution of aquifers and other dire consequences for ecosystems. Meanwhile, very valuable efforts will be wasted and will have lost time to undertake the necessary turn toward an energy model in which the renewable energies are the predominant, and where the energy consumption is gradually reduced.

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The Basque Government communicates they want to spend 100 million euros in the next 2 years in the drilling of exploration wells of unconventional gas. The project is based on unreal datas and without justification. The Basque Government, before they take action, must offer real and verifiable data, and must justify the economic plan which sustains it, including the costs referred in the derivatives of the impact on the environment. The Basque Government, before they act, must offer real and verifiable data, even if they are subjected to different scenes, and must also justify the economic plan that sustains them, including in the costs referred the derivatives of the impact on the environment. Inconstancy in energy policies, and the oil back to chimeras and short-haul high cost, distance us from the objectives for the fight against climate change and the sustainability of our society.

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The search for new sources of energy never will be based on "sustainable development", purely and simply in obtaining the greatest possible profit.

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The assemblies of Araba, Cantabria, Burgos, Bizkaia and the neighbors of the affected countries are consolidating a resistance movement to the fracking. The negative consequences will be for ever: the trashing of natural landscapes, cultural and social, the contamination of aquifers and rivers, the increase of the noise and traffic and the deterioration of the roads by the passage of heavy trucks, the problem of storage and treatment of toxic waste Only a few will benefit: extractive industries, some subcontracts of the sector and some political office.