{"id":39600,"date":"2013-08-17T20:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_statement_from_church_of_england_on_fracking\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:05:41","slug":"a_statement_from_church_of_england_on_fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39600","title":{"rendered":"A Statement from Church of England on Fracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chair of the Church of England&#8217;s group on Mission and Public Affairs Philip Fletcher has today (16th August 2013) issued the following statement placing recent media reports in context:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Church of England has no official policy either for or against hydraulic fracturing (known as &#8216;fracking&#8217;). However there is a danger of viewing fracking through a single issue lens and ignoring the wider considerations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a number of balancing considerations which need to be taken into account when coming to a view. Fuel poverty is an increasingly urgent issue for many in society &#8211; the impact on energy bills is felt most by the least well off. Blanket opposition to further exploration for new sources of fuel fails to take into account those who suffer most when resources are scarce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2013\/08\/statement-from-church-of-england-on-fracking.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chair of the Church of England&#8217;s group on Mission and Public Affairs Philip Fletcher has today (16th August 2013) issued the following statement placing recent media reports in context: &#8220;The Church of England has no official policy either for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39600\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,389,635,589,149,140,199,168,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}