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CLAPTON

antrobus wrote: »

The ownership of all oil and gas within the land area of Great Britain is vested in the Crown by virtue of the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934. If there so happens to be a shale gas reservoir that extends beneath land owned by the NT, or indeed Clapton's back garden for that matter, I'm not convinced that either of them can do frack all to stop someone extracting it.:)

well, if they try to frack under my back garden I fully intend to stamp my feet and write to the local newspaper
realistically I probably won't be interviewed by the BBC
and I shall continue not to be a member of the NT

chucky

CLAPTON wrote: »

well, if they try to frack under my back garden I fully intend to stamp my feet and write to the local newspaper
realistically I probably won't be interviewed by the BBC
and I shall continue not to be a member of the NT

You could always start numerous threads on this forum about how difficult it is.

BillJones

mayonnaise wrote: »

Sure, the footprint of fracking will probably be quite small, but why even consider fracking on NT land before we even made a start with fracking on the other 98.5% of the UK.

Because we need to do it where the gas is, and where it can most easily be removed, not where people would prefer to see it done.

It's pointless fracking in Northumberland, where there's no gas, or in parts of Central London, where there's no space, for example.

Graham_Devon

CLAPTON wrote: »

Whilst I'm not sure I'm in favour of fracking (lack of real facts and figures), I see no particular reason why my back garden should be favoured before NT land.)

Oh, a NIMBY

princeofpounds

Isn't it funny how we all got distracted by fracking, when the issue of not building any houses on new land, ever, is slightly more important...

mayonnaise

BillJones wrote: »

It's pointless fracking in Northumberland, where there's no gas

There is.

1. The North UK Carboniferous Shale Region: stretches across northern England and southern Scotland. The shale rock was created in the Carboniferous period. It includes the Bowland Shale in Lancashire - but there are also other basins of rock in Cleveland, Cheshire and Northumberland amongst others.

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/06/carbon-briefing-uk-shale-gas-resource/

BillJones

mayonnaise wrote: »

There is.

1. The North UK Carboniferous Shale Region: stretches across northern England and southern Scotland. The shale rock was created in the Carboniferous period. It includes the Bowland Shale in Lancashire - but there are also other basins of rock in Cleveland, Cheshire and Northumberland amongst others.

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/06/carbon-briefing-uk-shale-gas-resource/

Then I'm happpy to stand corrected, I'd understood that there wasn't much there.

I'd want some pretty good reasons, mind, why Druridge Bay (for example) was a better choice than the gardens of Windsor Castle.