A heavy on the vitriol piece on shale today from the Guardian, assumes that anyone pro shale is some kind of right wing denier.

Huhne was on form, railing against "fault finders and curmudgeons who hold forth on the impossibility of renewables – the unholy alliance of climate sceptics and armchair engineers who are selling Britain's ingenuity short." He specifically targeted those puffed up by the ludicrous hype over the UK's fledgling shale gas find: "Unconventional gas has not yet lit a single room nor cooked a single roast dinner in the UK. Yet those who clamour loudest for "realistic" energy policies would have us hitch our wagon to shale alone." Yes, Dieter Helm, he's talking to you.

Actually Dieter is talking to you but you haven't got the message: What part of selfishly killing off any chances for recovery and cutting spending on health, education and jobs  does he not understand?  Completely wrong, but borne out of an insecurity that he knows he can't win the argument that there is no alternative to spending billions on technology that doesn't work.

As I've noted before, the gas industry is up against coal, clean or otherwise, Gazprom, Nuclear, Centrica, Ofgem, DECC and off shore wind. Oh, lets not forget Nabucco.

Nabucco makes CCS seem well thought out. The problem: Arguments between Russia and Ukraine meant Europe got cut off exactly twice.  Nothing really happened and it didn't last for long.But a few hundred kilometers of pipeline allegedly presented a permanent threat to Europe, one which had never been present in the worst days of the cold war.

Solution: Build a three thousand km pipline through exemplars of stability like Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iraq and even Iran. That will make us feel more secure!

But shale solved the problem of insecurity and- another key project of the energy "experts" bites the dust:

Nabucco prays for a miracle

The project has evolved into a clumsy, expensive solution to a problem the market is already solving

The Guardian shouldn't take shale so personally. It screws everyone up.

Shale gas: The Millwall of the energy industry. But we do care really....