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Underground Coal Gasification Collapse Shows Fragility Of Fracking
- Newcastle based UCG company collapses
- Despite £1 billion in loan guarantees
- Could not find backers after 8 years
- Big victory for communities UK-wide
- Made UCG brand as toxic as its reality
- Rebrand as “deep gas winning” failed
- Licences will be picked up by others
- But sets precedent, industry can be beaten
- Shows fragility of fracking industry
- Shale industry in US also in chaos
- Fracking can be starved of investment
- Community resistance key to success
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Underground Coal Gasification: Creating Hell On Earth
- 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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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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