For the record Brian Beck (Letters, October 21), Halliburton has been linked to myriad fracking-related incidents not only in the US but in other parts of the world, too.

As I have pointed out before, David Cameron announced that “there will be no legislation that will stop fracking in the UK”.

This Government has cut funding to regulatory agencies – we must understand just how dangerous to our ecology and water supply this madness is.

What intrigues me, Mr Beck, is the fact you seem to be all for the capitalist free market but your solution to it is the socialist ideal of collective bargaining.

Yes, if we all got together and told energy companies what we’re prepared to pay them for their products, we would do well.

To do that it needs someone to organise it and, I would suggest, sir, that this is where you make your stand.

Next is the fact that the water companies lose so much water due to leaks. Mr Beck is correct to point this out, as it highlights the stupidity of throwing even more of our most precious resource away – all in the vain hope of getting some gas (none of which you or I will probably be able to afford).

Surely you can now see why I, and millions of others around the world, are so set against fracking.

The solution to the increasing costs of fuel, water and rail travel in this country, is to take the lot back into public hands and re-nationalise all of them.

That way we can bargain collectively on the open market as a nation, and not as victims of a cabal of energy, water and rail companies.

In finishing, I would suggest Mr Beck, and all pro-frackers, sit down and really think through this.

For if our water supplies are ruined, we will be beholden to other countries for it.

The worst case scenario here is going to war for water.

Water or war: which one would you prefer?

Kenny Lloyd, Norway Street, Portslade