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- Cuadrilla drilling tight oil well in Balcombe
- Similar to Bakken Shale in North Dakota
- Claim well ‘unlikely’ to go into production
- No one is celebrating with good reason
- Battle not just about this particular well
- Threat of thousands to follow real concern
- Potentially 300 within 5 miles of Balcombe
- Balcombe well will provide data to Cuadrilla
- Allowing them to get more investment
- They have no intention of producing anything
- Plan to prove viable, sellout to larger company
- With enough resistance can be made unviable
- Wherever they try to drill, community must resist
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- New UCG licence application submitted
- Onshore in Warwickshire countryside
- 24 licences in UK already given away
- All blocks just off the coast up until now
- Could open door for UCG to move onshore
- UCG involves burning coal underground
- Toxic/Carcinogenic tars are a byproduct
- Long history of contaminating groundwater
- Large amounts of toxic waste produced
- Larger area, including Coventry, threatened
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- UCG involves burning coal underground
- Same drilling technology as Shale/CBM
- Produces Syngas (similar to Town Gas)
- Toxic/Carcinogenic tars are byproduct
- Process out in open environment
- Small scale trials in past decades
- Resulted in serious water contamination
- Plans to burn billions of tons of coal
- Would guarantee climate catastrophe
- 24 UCG licenses approved around coast
- Onshore licence being considered now
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