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Fracking Nightmare: Destroying Our Countryside
- New UK government energy strategy
- Increases reliance on natural gas
- Assumption that fracking can fill gap
- Minor onshore oil and gas in UK to date
- Fracking requires huge amount of drilling
- 54,000 wells to supply 40 power stations
- Would cover 7,000 sq miles (size of Wales)
- 36,000 wells to offset North Sea decline
- Would cover an additional 4,700 sq miles
- Massive impacts give population density
Defining Extreme Energy: A Process not a Category
- Extreme energy often defined as a category
- Alternative is extreme energy as a process
- Easy to extract resources targeted first
- As depleted, more intense extraction needed
- Extraction effort will steadily increase
- Energy extraction displaces other activities
- Process has happened throughout history
- But now the process is massively accelerating
- Driven by unsustainable energy consumption
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Fracking Desperate: The Scramble For Unconventional Gas
- Second Dash for Gas pushed by government
- Idea totally disconnected from reality we face
- North Sea gas production in terminal decline
- UK gone from exporter to major importer
- Competition with Asia cutting LNG imports
- Imports from Europe unlikely to grow
- Consumption now being forced down
- Gas much more scarce and expensive
- Not the time to get even more addicted
- Establishment willing gamble on shale
- Because they will be insulated from costs
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Tagged Bubble & Bust
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Communities Dig In To Fight Fracking
The long expected announcement that the government will allow fracking companies to continue attempts at exploitation of unconventional gas is the start of a major battle over what sort of world which we will leave to our children. In the last year and a half, a growing number of communities have begun organising to oppose […]
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Tagged Airth, Lancashire, Resistance
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Debunking the US Emissions Myth: It`s the Economy Stupid
- Shale being promoted as an economic miracle
- Claimed to have reduced US carbon emissions
- In reality caused by the economic crisis
- Demand drop reduced US coal and oil use
- Similar falls in UK and other countries
- Coal and oil redirected to China etc.
- Not practical for US gas so prices low
- Gas production temporarily continued to grow
- Due to variety of slow to change factors
- Cannot continue as companies loosing money
- Shale gas is expensive, dirty and short term
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Tagged Bubble & Bust, US
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Fight to stop the suicidal `Dash for Gas` needs you
- New gas fired power station occupied
- Plans for 20 new plants across country
- Part of push to burn all remaining fossil fuels
- Would trigger catastrophic climate change
- Since Rio+20 big push for ‘green capitalism’
- Climate change quietly being embraced
- Grassroots community resistance needed
- Lots of different things that everyone can do
- Your area will have something to fight soon
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Tagged Direct Action, Resistance
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Frack Attack: Application For Britain`s First Unconventional Gas Development
- First application for unconventional gas production in UK
- Submitted by Dart Energy in Falkirk And Stirling
- 14 new and 2 existing well sites
- 22 new coal bed methane wells
- About 20 km of pipelines
- 1 waste outfall into Firth of Forth
- 1 gas processing facility
- Plans for up to 600 more wells in area
- Beginning of massive attach on countryside
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Tagged Airth, Coal Bed Methane, Dart Energy, Scotland
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The Shale Revolution: A Peek Behind The Curtain
- Shale being promoted as an economic miracle
- It is claimed to have reduced US energy prices and carbon emissions
- In reality this has all been caused by the economic crisis
- Drop in demand reduced US coal and oil consumption by 10%
- Coal and oil redirected through world market to countries like China
- No world market for gas so US gas prices dropped instead
- Shale gas production costs are way above present prices, which must rise eventually
- Exploitation of shale is a sign of desperation
- Shale will only ever provide small amounts of expensive and dangerous energy
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Tagged Bubble & Bust, Fracking (Shale and Coal Bed Methane), Shale Gas
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