Tag Archives: Cluff Natural Resources
Fracking Scotland: Time To Get Organised
- 4 Frackers focused on the Midland Valley
- Dart Energy, INEOS, Cluff and Reach CSG
- UK’s first production application at Airth
- Outcome of Dart’s planning appeal imminent
- Dart have permission to drill at Skinflats
- Production plans for 1,300 wells in PEDL 133
- IGas acquire Dart to access 1m acres of UK
- 5 UCG licences already sold in Firth of Forth
- Cluff Natural Resources plans at Largo Bay
- More than 1 billion tons of coal targeted
- Extraction would require over 4,000 wells
- Plans to sell all Central Belt to frackers
- 14th Onshore License round happening now
- Communities getting organised to resist threat
- Now is the time to get informed and organised
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Tagged Airth, Cluff Natural Resources, Dart Energy, Featured, IGas, Ineos, Scotland
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Underground Coal Gasification: Secret Talks In Warwickshire As Public Revolts In Wales
Warwickshire County Council has been engaging in secret talks (Coventry Telegraph) with Cluff Natural Resources, a company with plans to conduct underground coal gasification (UCG) under the county. UCG involves drilling into coal seams, using similar horizontal drilling technology to shale gas/oil and coal bed methane (CBM) extraction, injecting air/oxygen and setting fire to the […]
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Fracking Threat In The North West
- Wide range of fracking threats in North West
- Both Bowland Shale and various coal seams
- Cuadrilla have large license in Lancashire
- Drilled 4 shale gas test wells and fracked one
- Bogged down in planning at present time
- IGas holds swath from Manchester to Liverpool
- Targeting Shale and CBM at Barton Moss well
- Dart has group of licenses in Cheshire
- After CBM and Shale (helped by GDF Suez)
- Aurora Petroleum has licence north of Liverpool
- Looking for investors to exploit Shale Oil
- UCG licenses in Liverpool Bay and Dee Estuary
- Over 20,000 wells threatened across region
- Government to license more areas next year
- Peel Holdings looking to be fracking landlord
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Tagged Cluff Natural Resources, Dart Energy, IGas
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Creeping Inferno: Underground Coal Gasification Threat Comes Onshore
- 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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