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Newsnight fails Scotland on Dart Energy Threat

Newsnight fails Scotland on Dart Energy Threat

…in the effluent are 12 times UK drinking water standards. SEPA have allow Dart to self regulate and have issued a permit to dump the water with minimal testing. In August 2012 Dart submitted the UK’s first unconventional gas production application, 22 new wells, 14 new sites and 20km of pipeline. Over 2,500 local people have submitted planning objections and Falkirk and Stirling councils have returned a non-determination on the application… Continue reading

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Wells, Wells And More Fracking Wells

…bcf ? 770 East Midlands Dart Energy 1,413 1,218 bcf 2C 2,436 Staffordshire Dart Energy 325 686 bcf 2C 1,372 South Wales Dart Energy 442 320 bcf 2C 640 South Wales Eden Energy 247 980 bcf 2C (1,500) Somerset UK Methane 450 1,155 bcf ? b 2,310 Kent Coastal Oil and Gas 371 952 bcf ? b 1,904 Total 19,360 Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Swansea Bay Clean Coal 77 1 BTons 4,000 Cromer Clean Coal 100 260 MTons 1000 Humberside Clean Coal 81 200 MTons 8… Continue reading

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Fracking Licence Clear Out: Preparation For Sell Off

Fracking Licence Clear Out: Preparation For Sell Off

…fe CBM PEDL 195 Dart Energy South Staffordshire Staffordshire CBM PEDL 198 Dart Energy Milwich Staffordshire CBM PEDL 196 Dart Energy Cotes Heath Staffordshire CBM PEDL 176 Dart Energy Pocklington East Riding of Yorkshire CBM PEDL 206 Egdon Resources Newark-on-Trent Nottinghamshire ? PEDL 212 Eden Energy Pontardawe Neath Port Talbot CBM PEDL 218 Eden Energy Treorchy Rhondda Cynon Taf CBM PEDL 211 Dart Energy Mwar Swansea CBM PEDL 225 American Ener… Continue reading

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Fracking The East Midlands: Total Distraction

Fracking The East Midlands: Total Distraction

…To Enlarge) When it comes to CBM the main companies that need watching are Dart and IGas. Both have numerous licences in the region, and Dart has already drilled several CBM exploration wells. Both companies are also facing stiff opposition in other area, with Dart’s attempts to construct the first UK CBM production development stalled in Scotland and an ongoing community blockade of IGas’s site at Barton Moss near Manchester. While ne… Continue reading

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Cash crisis for Scots driller as  community resistance grows

Cash crisis for Scots driller as community resistance grows

…onal gasfield in the UK to date – at Airth in Scotland. An anonymous Dart Executive recently admitted: “Dart Energy has been facing a fund crunch.” To alleviate it’s cash problems, in the past six months, the company has sold everything it can to remain viable. In June it sold its Chinese assets for a US$12m loss. Dart also sold a piece of their UK portfolio for £425,000 – a paltry sum in the world of oil and gas, and… Continue reading

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Auschwitz to be drilled for gas

Auschwitz to be drilled for gas

…no apparent bounds. It even takes it toll on those involved. In a blog by Dart Energy Executive Eytan Uliel, the 30 year old writes of a visit to a Dart site near the death camp in January of this year: “about two kilometres down the road, with the smokestacks of the (Auschwitz) crematoria still visible in the distance, we turned into a side-lane, and then into a field, and there we were: at the drill site for the next gas well.” The millionaire… Continue reading

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First UK fracking leak as Dart Energy wells fail

First UK fracking leak as Dart Energy wells fail

…(CBM) wells near Canonbie in Scotland. The leak – at wells owned by Dart Energy – confirm anecdotal evidence from locals who have – over the last two years – periodically noticed gas in their water supply. The leak is of no surprise to the oil and gas industry – drillers know well that many of their gas wells leak. Research by oil services company Schlumberger suggests up to 60 percent of gas wells will be leaking wi… Continue reading

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Fracking Threat In The North West

Fracking Threat In The North West

…o production in the face massive community opposition. However, like IGas, Dart have now become interested in Shale as well. Dart recently entered into an agreement with French energy giant GDF SUEZ which gives GDF SUEZ a 25 percent share in Dart’s licences in the Bowland Shale in return for money to drill up to 14 exploration wells in the area. Dart has a particularly large block of licences in Cheshire, as well as other parts of the region… Continue reading

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