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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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Fracking Scotland: Shale Report Signals Third Threat
- New BGS shale oil and gas report released
- Focused on Midland Valley in central Scotland
- Outlines third fracking threat to the region
- On top of the coal based threats: CBM/UCG
- Suggests around 14 months of shale gas
- As well as around 5 months of shale oil
- Combined with 5 months Coal Bed Methane
- Extraction would require over 7,000 wells
- Stretches from Glasgow through Edinburgh
- Underground Coal Gasification also a threat
- 5 UCG licences already sold in Firth of Forth
- More than 1 billion tons of coal targeted
- Extraction would require over 4,000 wells
- Is third BGS report in run up to licensing round
- Where 60% of UK could be sold to the frackers
- Across UK report threaten over 50,000 wells
- Communities getting organised to resist threat
Dart Face 90,000 Scottish Residents at Public Inquiry
- Dart Energy facing inquiry in Scotland
- Already kicked out of Australia by opposition
- Applications for first UK fracking production
- Record 2,500 objections from local people
- Rejected by Falkirk and Stirling Councils
- Dart appealing to Scottish Government
- 27 community (90,000 people) fighting back
- Threat of over 1,000 CBM wells if approved
- Inquiry begins 18th March 2014, Falkirk
- Lasts at least 3 weeks, no result for months
- Meanwhile Dart turning its sights on England
- 3-5 CBM well drilling campaign in England
- £24m GDF Suez investment driving activity
- Local communities are mobilising in response
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Dart Energy dumps extraordinary levels of benzene into Firth of Forth
Nov 2014 UPDATE – For a full round-up of the situation in Scotland click here… Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith is a senior adviser to the National Toxics Network (NTN) and recently coauthored NTN’s report on the chemical impacts of hydraulic fracturing in the Australian shale and coal seam gas industry. Mariann has been visiting communities and […]
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Frack Attack: Application For Britain`s First Unconventional Gas Development
- First application for unconventional gas production in UK
- Submitted by Dart Energy in Falkirk And Stirling
- 14 new and 2 existing well sites
- 22 new coal bed methane wells
- About 20 km of pipelines
- 1 waste outfall into Firth of Forth
- 1 gas processing facility
- Plans for up to 600 more wells in area
- Beginning of massive attach on countryside
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Fracking plan for Scotland revealed
A newly-released company document shows Australian fracker Dart Energy is preparing to frack in Dumfries, Scotland. The document also reveals a list of fracking chemicals and the quantities to be used near the picturesque town of Canonbie. Dart, via its subsidiary Greenpark Energy, intends to inject 1,100,000 litres of fracking fluid into the ground from […]
Notorious gas driller moves to Scotland
Notorious gas driller Dart Energy has applied to drill a third well at its site near Airth, Scotland. Dart, whose plans to drill in central Sydney Australia led 20,000 people to oppose it, has been quietly developing a Scottish site since 2011. Dart is a specialist in Coal Bed Methane (or Coal Seam Gas as […]
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