Fracking report - BBC miss the real story

The local BBC ran the story that fracking is safe last night, quoting a new report by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Of course I expected them to ignore the impact of the extracted gas on climate change but I would have thought they would have picked on the scandal that the report was co-authored by the UK's leading fracker. This if from Frack Off:

The report on fracking released today by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) & the Royal Society omits a key consideration: the RAE’s ex-President is Lord Browne, Chairman of Cuadrilla, the UK’s leading fracker. Lord Browne was head of the RAE – co-author of the report – until last year. Browne owns 30% of Cuadrilla and works inside government as a non-executive director to the Cabinet Office.

Stunningly poor reporting by the BBC who are failing to report the real story that this government is fundamentally corrupt and self serving. What next, a report by Fred Goodwin, the government's new monetary policy tzar, that banking problems have been blown out of proportion and that the sector is sound and safe for the future?