Shale gas won the overwhelming support of readers yesterday as the answer to the UK’s energy crisis. A poll we ran found almost three-quarters of you were in favour of mining the massive reserves — using technology known as fracking — which lie under many parts of the country. Sun readers signalled, “We’re backing fracking” by 71 per cent to 29 per cent after experts estimated there are 1.3trillion cubic feet of gas lying buried between Blackpool and Scarborough. It is thought roughly a tenth of that could be accessed — enough to last the UK for over 40 years. --Ben Jackson, The Sun, 11 July 2013