The results showed that culling badgers - a naturalreservoir for bovine TB - did reduce the incidence of disease in cattle within the trial area, but that infection rates increased in the surrounding countryside as badgers were displaced.
This would only happen however if the rocks were extremely porous, yet if this were the case the natural gas reservoir would have never existed in the first place.
Studies show, it argues, that within a couple of seasons after the draining of the reservoir the shoreline areas would return to their natural state, and within a few generations the rest of the canyon would be as it was originally.