Monthly Archives: June 2013
Exploding The Fracking Hype
- Latest government fracking announcement
- Sparse on details, but plenty of hype
- Wild claims regarding vast amounts of gas
- Technical or economic aspects not addressed
- Would require 10,000 of wells to be drilled
- Industrialising vast area of countryside
- Unspecified bribes for communities
- No compensation enough for this though
- Can look to US and Australia to see impacts
- Communities getting organised to resist
Fracking In Balcombe: A Community Says No
- Fracking threatening Sussex countryside
- Cuadrilla have licences for 270 square miles
- Planning permission to drill in Balcombe
- Targeting layer within Kimmeridge Clay
- Analogous to Bakken Shale in North Dakota
- Would need thousands of wells to extract oil
- Same severe impacts as in US and Australia
- Villagers getting organised to resist invasion
- Cuadrilla is trying to push ahead regardless
- Need permits to start, but could be soon
Fracking Sussex: The Threat Of Shale Oil & Gas
- Fracking is now threatening Sussex
- Cuadrilla has licence blocks in the east
- Celtique Energie has blocks in the west
- Unconventional prospects in Sussex
- Kimmeridge Clay and deeper Lias
- Kimmeridge is presently main target
- Analogous to Bakken Shale in North Dakota
- Would require drilling thousands of wells
- Cuadrilla want to drill at Balcombe soon
- Celtique have plans for two sites in Sussex
- Near Fernhurst and Wisborough Green
Newsnight fails Scotland on Dart Energy Threat
Why is it that Scotlands flagship news program completely missed the story? If you compare the content and tone of the 12 minute BBC piece with one and half minutes from 7 News in Australia the differences are stark. The real story in Scotland: 2014 UPDATE here… An Australian company called Dart Energy want to […]