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• 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

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