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I don't see it happening. "Examining" fracking is just a stalking horse so that other solutions (nuclear and north sea) become more palatable to the public.
 
As fracking is regularly used for oil wells and can be used for water too, I see no issues for gas wells. The site chosen has to be productive and if they also select for seismic activity and potential for pollution, I do not have a problem with it.
However, I would prefer offshore drilling to onshore where possible and obviously continued exploitation of renewable and research into future technology as well and in parallel.
 
The problem is the tremors.

I felt them twice. It's the only time my whole house was shaking for, what felt like 10 seconds.

Last time they drilled, they monitor the effects, and were told if the tremors become too much they have to stop... and they stopped.

So unless there is some new technology going to be used we could be feeling the tremors again.
 
Minusorange said:
Wouldn't it make more sense to ween off our dependency of gas rather than find ways to supplement it ?
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It would make more sense if it was possible, but it isn't. We are dependent on gas. We could probably stop using gas at some point in the future, maybe possibly as little as 20 years. Perhaps. At huge cost, at best, if it can be done at all. It's not just the complete replacement of equipment and infrastructure. It's also the need to increase electricity generation by at least 500% to replace the energy currently generated by burning gas. Which we can't currently do at all. In the meantime, even if we're trying to wean our civilisation off of gas, we need to either get gas from our own territory or buy it from another country.

I think that one part of Greenpeace's position is being somewhat overlooked - the way the system is set up means that even if fracking for gas does go ahead in the UK it won't help the UK much because we've already given up the rights to it. The UK wouldn't get the gas from fracking in the UK. The companies doing the fracking would get the gas from fracking in the UK. Selling the family silver is how this country has worked for decades.
 
These conservatives are desperate to try and resume fracking. It was a disaster and caused earthquakes. Our country is small and densely populated unlike the USA.
 
More money wasted, probably to keep the head bangers happy in the Boris/Brexit party whilst knowing full well it's a waste of time.
 
Frack away IMO, tight regulation and ideally water purification rather than storage. We need gas, it's relatively low carbon and I don't want to have to rely on foreign imports.

If it wasn't for decades of anti nuclear false propaganda then this wouldn't be an issue, in fact we'd be much further along the road of becoming carbon neutral.
 
Thought that was over here. No one wants it on their doorstep due to the risks and it needs police guards 24/7, otherwise protesters cripple operations.

What needs reform in the UK is the entire utilities sector. Back in to public ownership. Especially water.
 
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I thought there were geologist saying we were over 150 million years too late for it to be viable in the UK.

The US is different geologically and has vast amounts of space.

Pointless here. Stupid idea.
 
adidan said:
I thought there were geologist saying we were over 150 million years too late for it to be viable in the UK.
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There's a saying that those of us in particular circles used to joke about and it's pertinent here - 'One rock, two geologists, three opinions' :D
 
I said this in the SC thread as well but I'm glad that fracking powers have been devolved to the Scottish government up here where it is banned... Even if Farage gets in (like some weird Black Mirror episode), they can't do anything about fracking up here.

Actually - I think Black Mirror should do an episode where a party like Reform is elected and shows what could happen (call the party "Reframe" or something)... I'd watch this :D :D
 
I let this thread run when it was necro'd, but unsurprisingly it's turned into a Reform / politics thread. Locking, carry on the conversation in the appropriate threads in SC.
 
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