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Fracking Nukes: Counting the kilotons
- First massive fracturing to produce gas
- Used nuclear bombs at bottom of wells
- 3 tests in US in late 1960s/early 1970s
- Gas turned out too radioactive to sell
- Massive hydraulic fracturing now used
- Comparible amounts of energy expended
- 16 well pad similar to Hiroshima bomb
- Takes weeks rather than an instance
- Damage to geology will be similar though
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Tagged Fracking (Shale and Coal Bed Methane), Shale Gas
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Fracking around with the law
- Fracking trial has throw up many legal issues
- Licences don’t appear to allow for fracking
- Strategic environmental assessment not done
- Planning applications duplicitous and probably illegal
- Lack of environmental impact assessments
- No consultation at any stage of process
- In US changed law, in UK just ignoring it
- Government more concerned with PR than regulation
- Impossible to regulate even if there was anyone who wanted to
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Tagged Cuadrilla, Resistance, System Failure
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Direct Action To Protect Pennsylvania Forest From Fracking
Last Sunday nearly 100 Earth First! activists and locals shut down a shale gas drilling site in Pennsylvania for 12 hours. The blockade of the EQT site in Pennsylvania’s Moshannon State Forest was trying to stop the further destruction of Pennsylvania’s state forests — more than half of which have already been leased for drilling […]
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Fracking On Trial Next Week
THE TRIAL The trial for the first fracking rig occupation in Lancashire last November kicks off next week. Starting Tuesday 10th July and scheduled to last till Friday 13th July… so four full days at Preston Magistrates Court. If you’re against fracking and want to see it stopped, it’d be great to have your support, […]
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Tagged Cuadrilla, Direct Action, System Failure
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Government Admits Fracking Will Not Solve Energy Crisis (But Will Push Ahead Anyway)
- Government admits no vast shale gas reserves
- May not even be economic to extract
- No plans to stop fracking however
- Even limited exploitation will require hundreds of wells
- CBM and UCG are a much larger threat
- Present system is unsustainable
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Tagged System Failure
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Press Release: `Lord Smith` demonstrates his contempt for the environment
The announcement by Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, that he supports the use of fracking for shale gas in the UK is a further demonstration the gulf between the concerns of ordinary people and the profit driven motivations of government and industry. Frack Off activist Nathan Roberts said “Lord Smith’s endorsement of commercial-scale […]
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Tagged Incompetence, Regulation?, System Failure
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Carbon capture and storage: Having your cake and burning it
- CCS is idea for sweeping carbon emissions under the rug
- Driven by psychological need for an easy solutions
- No evidence that it is actually practical
- Would require massive and complex system
- Combines multiple unproven processes
- CO2 unlikely to stay underground for long enough
- Could not stop global warming even if it worked
- Number of pilot projects recently cancelled
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PRESS RELEASE: Activists denounce earthquake report as `dangerous distraction`
The release today of a second report into the earthquakes caused by Cuadrilla resources’ fracking activity in Lancashire has been met with disdain from environmental activists. The report, commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), concludes that, ‘it would not be possible to state categorically that no further earthquakes will be experienced […]
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