Fracking is also likely to take at least five years to produce commercial quantities of natural gas, and although a government-commissioned geological survey found that decades-worth of the fuel are likely to lie below the surface, it is not known how much can be extracted at economically viable rates.
They are probably rather more interested in the dollars that can be extracted from Maldives television than in assuaging the suffering of pampered Brits who can't survive without a dose of Eddie Mair to make the chocolate gelato taste that little bit better.
It is not yet clear how many tourists were on the tower when it collapsed, though reports indicate that several bodies were later extracted from the ruins.
Indeed, during the final period of the last government led by Fianna Fáil, Lowry extracted concessions to his constituency as the price of his support for the Brian Cowen-led coalition.
Doctors extracted it through his nose ("absolutely bloody mental").
Multiple people in prison in Illinois insist they have been wrongly convicted on the basis of coerced confessions extracted by Zuley and his colleagues.
Calil has always strongly denied involvement in the coup plot and claimed Mann was pressured into repeating in court allegations that previously been extracted from him under torture in Zimbabwe.
The Express's deputy political editor, Alison Little, had extracted them from the overall national poll, which found that the Tories were on 33%, with Labour on 34% and Ukip on just 15%.
As the issue of second jobs has risen up the political agenda, the Conservative party chairman has been taken to task over his controversial past – most recently by LBC's Shelagh Fogarty who extracted three denials from Shapps that he had worked as Michael Green after 2005.
However, whether much of it is ever extracted, let alone provides a significant part of the nation's energy use, is another thing entirely.
In Barnhart's case, the well appears to have run dry because the water was being extracted for shale gas fracking.
