Tories grant 18 fracking licences - all north of Leicester

alx said:
Except that a lot of this can be mitigated by proper regulation (which the UK generally has).

Lots of activities that go on in the UK are dangerous/have the potential to cause environmental impacts but regulation is in place to mitigate the risks.

Fracking is exactly the same, there's nothing super duper risking or dangerous about it - with appropriate regulation there's no real reason to fear it.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ts-drilling-caused-Blackpool-earthquakes.html

Private company Cuadrilla Resources has admitted that its activities probably caused two “seismic events” that occured in Blackpool earlier this year.
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arknor said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...ts-drilling-caused-Blackpool-earthquakes.html
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Amp34 said:
Which had no discernable affect on anything. As I have already pointed out you get larger events when a truck or train passes your house.

The regulation has also been changed since that incident. Now companies need to shoot 3D seismic and map all the faults around a well before fracking. They have to monitor in real time any events that occur and stop operations if an event of greater than 0.5 is detected. Larger events can be predicted based on the increase in size of micro events before them so this should (it's currently untested in the UK as we haven't cracked a well yet) stop any incident like this occurring again (or at least make them very, very rare).
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From another post on this subject. A lot was learned from that incident.

See also https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...fographic_Traffic-light-system_finaldec13.pdf for a nice infographic.
 
Rossi~ said:
And so it starts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35107203

Fracking under national parks is backed by MPs.

I'm thoroughly against fracking and i'm interested to see how this will affect the parks, not only through the fracking development and processing but through the traffic caused by workers and general logistics.
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Well the drilling will be done from outside the parks, so the traffic/general logistics shouldn't have an influence.

The rest of the arguments have probably already been covered in this thread.
 
Rossi~ said:
And so it starts:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35107203

Fracking under national parks is backed by MPs.

I'm thoroughly against fracking and i'm interested to see how this will affect the parks, not only through the fracking development and processing but through the traffic caused by workers and general logistics.
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tories will allow anything for a quick buck, this will end well, have they not heard of the chaos fracking has caused in certain parts of the USA. This country is tiny and we can't go contaminating the ground water here, as we don't have anywhere else to go
 
MrMoonX said:
tories will allow anything for a quick buck, this will end well, have they not heard of the chaos fracking has caused in certain parts of the USA. This country is tiny and we can't go contaminating the ground water here, as we don't have anywhere else to go
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read amp34's posts here
 
Just stuck my head in to say - Awesome Posts Amp. I actually learned something from a GD thread ;)

I lived close to Sizewell nuclear plant and was lucky enough to tour the reactor it is a really awesome place. I had no problem living close to it and would be more than happy to live near another one or have a plant near me. As long as the tax revenue used from exploration is used to genuinely develop infrastructure and long term funds to help the country then I am massively in favour of exploration. I am less bothered by Fracking than I am the miss management I expect to occur with the tax revenue generated...
 
MrMoonX said:
tories will allow anything for a quick buck, this will end well, have they not heard of the chaos fracking has caused in certain parts of the USA. This country is tiny and we can't go contaminating the ground water here, as we don't have anywhere else to go
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Ground water contamination tends to come from poor well completions rather than the process of fracking - in the US it's the usual case of poor regulation and any old joe jumping on the bandwagon.

Highly unlikely to ever happen here considering the existing regulation with respect to wells/well completion from the north sea.
 
alx said:
Ground water contamination tends to come from poor well completions rather than the process of fracking - in the US it's the usual case of poor regulation and any old joe jumping on the bandwagon.

Highly unlikely to ever happen here considering the existing regulation with respect to wells/well completion from the north sea.
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Thank god the banking sector was heavily regulated!
 
alx said:
Ground water contamination tends to come from poor well completions rather than the process of fracking - in the US it's the usual case of poor regulation and any old joe jumping on the bandwagon.

Highly unlikely to ever happen here considering the existing regulation with respect to wells/well completion from the north sea.
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yes cos we regulate things so well :roll eyes: who's going to inspect these parasitic earth killing companies? Environment agency has been cut to nothing

keep drinking the Kool Aid
 
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