Oh, my.  An almost sensible environmentalist. A former director of U.K. Greenpeace, Stephen Tindale, has shocked fellow environmentalists by coming out in favor of hydraulic fracturing.  Fracking extracts oil and natural gas from shale and has allowed the U.S. to become the largest fossil fuel producer in the world. At issue is a fracking project in the U.K. that has been vigorously opposed by green groups.  Tindale broke with the green movement by claiming that fracking can help fight global warming. Washington Times: “[T]oday Britain faces its biggest environmental challenge ever — tackling global warming while still keeping the lights on,” Mr. Tindalesaid in the Tuesday article for the [U.K.] Sun. “And as a lifelong champion of the Green cause, I’m convinced that fracking is not the problem but a central part of the answer.” He praised the British government’s recent approval of a shale-gas...(Read Full Post)