People power has shut the doors on fracking in the UK

cepheus

No wonder the Government was trying to suppress this report!

The unpublished report found that the leaking of waste fluids could harm the natural environment and water sources, and fracking operations were likely to have a dampening effect on house prices – likely to fall by up to 7% within a mile of wells, while households within a five mile radius could find their insurance costs rising significantly.....Subsequent investigations also revealed that the company had known for some months of a deformation to the well it had drilled, while failing to tell the government of its findings.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/03/people-power-has-shut-the-doors-on-fracking-in-the-uk?CMP=share_btn_tw

NICHOLAS_2

Hopefully it gets appealed and overturned, relying on foreigners for important things like energy is bad.

padington

NICHOLAS wrote: »

Hopefully it gets appealed and overturned, relying on foreigners for important things like energy is bad.

Interesting to see the big Saudi billionaire oil tycoon is giving his whole fortune away to charity.

Not terrible company to keep.

Thrugelmir

cepheus wrote: »

No wonder the Government was trying to suppress this report!

Any ideas as to how the UK can keep it's lights on?

michaels

What is the annual balance of trade deficit? 5% of GDP?

I guess rather than producing anything ourselves we can borrow the magic money tree from the Greeks.....

cells

frankmir wrote: »

Any ideas as to how the UK can keep it's lights on?

Import fracked LNG from America

Thrugelmir

deadcells wrote: »

Import fracked LNG from America

Dependence on others for energy supply isn't ideal.

padington

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Dependence on others for energy supply isn't ideal.

The oil is there, the only question is, do we believe this fairly crude fracking process is the best way to extract the oil anywhere near large clusters of hugely expensive assets ( like houses in South East of England ).

Mistermeaner

Idiots

(Idiots message too short)

gazter

This will be overturned by SOS. Hopefully. Fracking alone has likely resulted in the USA capturing this century also as its own, when it was long expected to be side-lined by china.

padington

gazter wrote: »

This will be overturned by SOS. Hopefully. Fracking alone has likely resulted in the USA capturing this century also as its own, when it was long expected to be side-lined by china.

Could you show evidence for that ? It a very big statement, made very early on in the century.