Tories grant 18 fracking licences - all north of Leicester

Freakbro said:
I appreciate waste water injection can come from many industrial processes but since it's the waste water from the Fracking process, then it is related to Fracking in this instance.
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It needs to be differentiated however as they are not the same thing. You don't need to inject waste water into reservoirs to frack other reservoirs. It's another example of using US data and extrapolating it (incorrectly) to the UK.

IIRC there are specific wells that have been located too close to faults that have caused the majority of these events as well as the sheer volume of fluids being injected. It's not every single injection well. TBH it's not really my area of expertise so I can't really argue either way much more on the subject.

Also you may be interested to know waste water from wells has been injected back down wells in the UK for decades. Again, something that has been ignored or overlooked by many campaigners.

Tefal said:
out of curiosity why do they do that?
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As far as I know it's cheaper than getting it tanked away and processed.
 
bloodiedathame said:
Smacks of the Government giving their pals and chums in fracking companies a license to print money. Yet another example of corruption.

They should be doing the correct thing and investing in renewables. Short sighted backhander ********.
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Yep.

It's just frustrating... there is always palm greasing at play and something like fracking given the trouble it's caused in the USA it should not go ahead.

At least not yet.
 
I'm against fracking. My local MP is all for it. I think he's a nob.

I don't think any impact on the local environment/landscape/water is worth the discounted fuel we won't be getting from it.

I don't really know WHY I am against it. I just am... probably because I'm not for it.
 
Tefal said:
either your location is out of date or you have a very different definition of "just up the road" :p
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Ok you're Welsh so I'm going to make allowances for that. I live in the North East of England and here Kielder is just up the road if you have a car. I know Wales is still on horse and carts but still, c'mon man. :rolleyes:
 
Absolute joke.

Corporate greed eh.

What are they gunna do once we have taken all the oil, chopped down all of the trees and drank all the water?

Can we eat and survive on cash? I don't think so
 
Yay, lets beat the **** out of the earth some more, gotta consume them fossil fuels, can't stop the energy companies from hoarding too much money.
 
Jono said:
I'm against fracking. My local MP is all for it. I think he's a nob.

I don't think any impact on the local environment/landscape/water is worth the discounted fuel we won't be getting from it.

I don't really know WHY I am against it. I just am... probably because I'm not for it.
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Are you also against petrol stations, building sites and farming?

All cause environmental/landscape and water impacts. Intensive farming being an especially destructive practice with its use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, not to mention causing silting up of rivers and downstream flooding.

Unfortunately most human actions cause impacts. Minimising it is our best option.

One legitimate argument, IMO, against fracking is the climate change argument. That's the same argument that covers conventional oil and gas as well though.

Rossi~ said:
Yay, lets beat the **** out of the earth some more, gotta consume them fossil fuels, can't stop the energy companies from hoarding too much money.
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Out of interest how do you hear your home, cook your dinner and get to work?
 
FoxEye said:
You sure about that? What's your reasoning?
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I wouldn't have to look at them.


bloodiedathame said:
Smacks of the Government giving their pals and chums in fracking companies a license to print money. Yet another example of corruption.

They should be doing the correct thing and investing in renewables.
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Who do you think owns the companies that produce/maintain the wind turbines?


Sliver said:
Ok you're Welsh so I'm going to make allowances for that. I live in the North East of England and here Kielder is just up the road if you have a car. I know Wales is still on horse and carts but still, c'mon man. :rolleyes:
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It's a two hour drive from Darlington to Kielder Reservoir, it is neither near your home nor just up the road.

Saying something silly then trying to insult somebody who calls you out on it is not a good defense :P
 
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Sliver said:
Ok you're Welsh so I'm going to make allowances for that. I live in the North East of England and here Kielder is just up the road if you have a car. I know Wales is still on horse and carts but still, c'mon man. :rolleyes:
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yeah 80 miles isn't just up the road....


i would not describe Sheffield as being "near my home" despite it being closer to me than the reservoir you say is near your home.
 
Why when oil/gas is cheaper than chips and demand is falling would our government give licences for the most expensive form of land based extraction?
 
thep02 said:
Why when oil/gas is cheaper than chips and demand is falling would our government give licences for the most expensive form of land based extraction?
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cause by the time theyre at production prices are likley to have risen?
 
ubersonic said:
turbines?
It's a two hour drive from Darlington to Kielder Reservoir, it is neither near your home nor just up the road.
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I've done it an hour. An hour in a day is nothing. Just up the road silly. :rolleyes:


Tefal said:
yeah 80 miles isn't just up the road....


i would not describe Sheffield as being "near my home" despite it being closer to me than the reservoir you say is near your home.
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Whatever. I travel a lot and an hour is nothing to me. If I was on a horse and cart in Wales, maybe I'd think differently. :rolleyes:
 
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