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Two fingers to Hamish -400 TRILLION cubic feet of Gas found - By Blackpool!

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  • lynneee
    lynneee Posts: 877 Forumite
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    true i suppose! :)
    mortgage £800 overpayment 2022. £600/£2400 2023 🙂 savings £1853/£1800 😊
  • System
    System Posts: 178,439 Community Admin
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    I knew there was more to that tower than meets the eye.

    it's really a drilling rig!
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  • chris_m
    chris_m Posts: 8,250 Forumite
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    !!!!!! wrote: »
    it's really a drilling rig!

    Blast, rumbled :T
  • Batchy
    Batchy Posts: 1,632 Forumite
    !!!!!! wrote: »
    I knew there was more to that tower than meets the eye.

    it's really a drilling rig!

    No but it was an RAF radar tower in the world war... ;-)
    Plan
    1) Get most competitive Lifetime Mortgage (Done)
    2) Make healthy savings, spend wisely (Doing)
    3) Ensure healthy pension fund - (Doing)
    4) Ensure house is nice, suitable, safe, and located - (Done)
    5) Keep everyone happy, healthy and entertained (Done, Doing, Going to do)
  • birkee
    birkee Posts: 1,933 Forumite
    OptionARMAGEDDON wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8779981/Cuadrilla-Resources-huge-gas-find-in-Blackpool-could-create-5600-jobs.html

    Looks as if taxation of this new resource could save our bacon. I wonder how many trillion pounds worth of gas this is worth?



    With the Jocks reserves of the black gold now depleted, its time to allow Scotland to declare its independence... Whilst we tap into our own resources

    That's scotched THEIR plans! :)
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Bill Bryson said something like, "Blackpool is nothing if not splendid - and it's not splendid".
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • zappahey
    zappahey Posts: 2,254 Forumite
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    vax2002 wrote: »
    We wont see a penny from it, Gas prices wont fall, it wont be used to end our ransom payments to Russian gas, why, because the Gas under Blackpool belongs to the EU, not us, they will decide where it goes and which EU countries get it cheap whilst, in short it will be stolen from us while we still pay through the nose.

    Is that a bit like your previous statement that all UK cars belong to DVLA?
    What goes around - comes around
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
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    lynneee wrote: »
    some bits of blackpool are ok! The town is being regenerated :)

    They are spending lots on redeveloping the front certainly.

    At least Blackpool doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't.

    .. unlike London.
    I've been to plenty of places in London and believe me, the streets are *not* paved with gold :( [I'll strangle that !!!!!! & his cat]
  • A._Badger
    A._Badger Posts: 5,882 Forumite
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    I see the BBC immediately switched into 'global warming' mode when the news was announced. They're certainly 'Green' at the Beeb - the rapid response team, led by Richard 'Catastrophe' Black, was recycling the litany of shale oil/gas myths in an instant.

    If the hippies get their way, we'll still be able to freeze and starve to death, the gas will remain untouched and Blackpool will be left to continue its hideous decline.
  • tonypop
    tonypop Posts: 152 Forumite
    optionarmageddon wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8779981/cuadrilla-resources-huge-gas-find-in-blackpool-could-create-5600-jobs.html

    looks as if taxation of this new resource could save our bacon. I wonder how many trillion pounds worth of gas this is worth?



    With the jocks reserves of the black gold now depleted, its time to allow scotland to declare its independence... Whilst we tap into our own resources


    :t idiot!!
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