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You may not be insured against fracking related contamination through flooding

cepheus
cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
As if there aren't enough good reasons to stop fracking here's another.
Many of the UK’s best known insurance companies will not insure against fracking-related damage, an investigation by The Independent on Sunday and the campaign group Spinwatch has found. This could include contamination caused by polluted water from a fracking site being spread during exceptional flood events.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/householders-affected-by-floods-face-insurance-double-whammy-if-they-live-nearby-planned-fracking-a6804476.html

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  • Mistermeaner
    Mistermeaner Posts: 3,024 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Fracking related contamination through flooding? What that?

    So there is some fracking.... let's just suppose there is some contamination (with what?).... then there is a flood, in which some of this contamination is spread.

    You would possibly not be insured against the contamination? Or the flood?

    You may well not be insured against the flood anyway.....

    Plus if your flooded what extra damage will said unspecified contamination cause?
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • cells
    cells Posts: 5,246 Forumite
    Mistermeaner wrote: »
    Plus if your flooded what extra damage will said unspecified contamination cause?


    nobody knows but why risk it we should study it for 50 years and then put a committee together to discuss it for another 50 years and then we can vote it down
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