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Lancashire Fracking Showdown: The Beginning Of A Larger Battle
- Plans For Large New Lancashire Fracking Sites
- Council Considering Applications This Week
- Communities are mobilising to fight this threat
- If rejected will be appeal to central government
- Approval would just be beginning of long battle
- Would take 2 years to drill and frack the sites
- Cuadrilla gathering data to get more investment
- Level of community resistance will be decisive
- Communities blocking fracking across the globe
- Stakes are very high and not just for Lancashire
- Area where fracking pushed most aggressively
- Threat of thousands of wells across Lancashire
- Potentially tens of thousands across Britain
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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
New Lancashire Threat: Cuadrilla`s Fracking Plans
- Cuadrilla submits new planning application
- Large pad with 4 horizontal shale gas wells
- Plan to be drilled and fracked over 2 years
- Second site nearby, application public soon
- Plans tailored to hide impacts at this stage
- Trying to advance project without opposition
- But application reveals many lurking issues
- Would become critical at production stage
- One site takes 7% of region’s spare water
- Full scale fracking would overwhelm system
- Threat to water supply of 6.6 million people
- Site would use 65% of fracking waste capacity
- Vast new frac waste disposal system needed
- Most waste not treatable, would accumulate
- Site requires over 20,000 vehicle movements
- Production needs water/waste storage ponds
- Wake up call for communities to get organised
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Tagged Cuadrilla, Featured, Lancashire appraisal, Land At Roseacre Wood, Land North Of Preston New Road, North West, Shale Gas
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20 Impact of Unconventional Gas Technologies
These resources are designed to be used by anyone. 20 images have been selected to represent 20 inescapable impacts of each unconventional gas extraction technology. The images can be used in presentations, talks and workshops in digital format or can be printed out and used as stimulus material for discussion. Large format A3 versions of […]
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Tagged Coal Bed Methane, Impacts, Shale Gas, Underground Coal Gasification
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Exploding The Fracking Hype
- Latest government fracking announcement
- Sparse on details, but plenty of hype
- Wild claims regarding vast amounts of gas
- Technical or economic aspects not addressed
- Would require 10,000 of wells to be drilled
- Industrialising vast area of countryside
- Unspecified bribes for communities
- No compensation enough for this though
- Can look to US and Australia to see impacts
- Communities getting organised to resist
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Wells, Wells And More Fracking Wells
- Fracking requires large numbers of wells
- Conventional well can drain large area
- For impermeable rock many wells required
- Often 8 wells per square mile or more
- Tens of thousands drilled in US already
- Largest onshore gas field in UK was 8 wells
- Fracking companies play down the scale
- What they say to investors most accurate
- Well numbers can be estimated from reserves
- Adds up to tens of thousands of wells across UK
- Plus pads, pipelines, compressor stations etc.
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Tagged Clean Coal Syngas, Coal Bed Methane, Cuadrilla, Dart Energy, Europa, Five-Quarter, IGas, Shale Gas, Underground Coal Gasification
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The Shale Revolution: A Peek Behind The Curtain
- Shale being promoted as an economic miracle
- It is claimed to have reduced US energy prices and carbon emissions
- In reality this has all been caused by the economic crisis
- Drop in demand reduced US coal and oil consumption by 10%
- Coal and oil redirected through world market to countries like China
- No world market for gas so US gas prices dropped instead
- Shale gas production costs are way above present prices, which must rise eventually
- Exploitation of shale is a sign of desperation
- Shale will only ever provide small amounts of expensive and dangerous energy
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Fracking Nukes: Counting the kilotons
- First massive fracturing to produce gas
- Used nuclear bombs at bottom of wells
- 3 tests in US in late 1960s/early 1970s
- Gas turned out too radioactive to sell
- Massive hydraulic fracturing now used
- Comparible amounts of energy expended
- 16 well pad similar to Hiroshima bomb
- Takes weeks rather than an instance
- Damage to geology will be similar though
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