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What does the announcement by IGas actually mean?
- IGas claims double previous estimate of 4.6 tcf
- Higher bound estimate for gas in place
- Actual producible gas is small fraction of this
- Probably less than a month of gas consumption
- No chance of even slowing North Sea decline
- Would require 1000’s wells to produce
- Not comparable to Polish figures
- Companies chasing investment cash with spin
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Tagged Bubble & Bust, IGas
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Energy, Climate and Cuts: A Fork in the Road
- Extreme Energy having increasing effects
- Both on society and the environment
- Concept of net energy very important
- Energy extraction taking more resources
- Growing like a cancer within society
- Will displace everything else if not stopped
Extreme Energy: The Road to Nowhere
- Extreme Energy set of new extraction methods
- Driven by depletion of natural resources
- Particularly the recent rise in oil prices
- Includes Tar Sands, Deep Water Drilling and Mountain Top Removal
- Characterised by much greater extraction effort
- Increased destruction of environment and communities
Underground Coal Gasification: Hellfire and Damnation
- UCG involves burning coal underground
- Uses same drilling technology as shale gas
- Previous tests resulted in serious water contamination
- Large scale use would guarantee climate catastrophe
- 24 UCG licenses approved around Britain
- Swansea Bay likely to be site of first tests
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Tagged East Anglia, North East, Underground Coal Gasification
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Coal Bed Methane: The Evil Twin of Shale Gas
Coal Bed Methane (CBM), sometimes called Coal Seam Gas (mainly in Australia), is Shale Gas’s less well known but equally destructive sibling in “the family” of extreme energy methods. Where once, if a coal seam was too deep, too thin or too fractured to mine that was the end of it, now with rising energy […]
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Tagged Coal Bed Methane, Yorkshire
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If fracking has been happening since 1947 what is there to worry about?
- Hydraulic fracturing is a technology
- Can by used in many different ways
- Used since 1947 to create small cracks
- To speed flow in conventional wells
- Now being used on vast scale for shale
- 1000 times size of conventional fracs
- Cracks extend hundreds of feet from well
- Huge amounts of water, chemicals and sand
- Energy of small nuclear bomb used
- Symptomatic of wider issues
- Massive intensification of extraction
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Tagged Fracking (Shale and Coal Bed Methane)
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Cuadrilla`s Three Casings Gambit
Anyone who has been exposed to much of Cuadrilla Resources‘ public relations campaign to persuade people that what they are doing is not very bad is likely to have come across some sort of variant of there might have been a few problems in the US but we use three casings on our wells so […]
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Tagged Cuadrilla, Impacts, Regulation?
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I`m pissed off about this! What should I do?
So you’re pissed off about fracking but don’t know what to do about it. Forming a local anti-fracking group in your area is and excellent response. You may not immediately have all the skills and free time that are needed to really make your voice heard but if you get together with a load of […]