Fracking Hell

[FatticusInch]

It’s back.

https://news.sky.com/story/ban-on-fracking-to-be-lifted-as-part-of-liz-trusss-energy-plan-12692646

That’ll upset a few.

[Gromit]

Nearly all the fracking companies in the US went bust.

https://frontpagelive.com/2020/07/14/fracking-companies-bankruptcy/

Extraction is too expensive.

[DTCwordfan]

hooray - about time too.

[youngmafbog]

Seconded DTC.

[Zacs-Master]

Yep, we're desperate for energy.
'"Far from being dependent on the global energy market and the actions of malign actors, we will make sure that the UK is a net energy exporter by 2040," she said.'
Excellent.

[Untitled]

fracking is extremely unlikely to help... best estimates suggest the UK has enough shale gase to meet less than ten years of energy consumption... and such gas as there is is very deep and expensive to extract... even producing it at all will take years and the benefits will be short lived...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11653-4.pdf


fracking companies insist that 50 year deposits are available but in the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies… they would say that wouldn't they!

If the govt had listened to Insulate Britain then UK energy demand would be significantly lower in the winter than it is now... they were absolutely right. Renewable energy sources are also much cheaper and usually faster to produce too... nuclear power is probably our best bet long-term but it is slow and costly.

[jno]

I suppose we can assume few ducal estates will be fracked?

[Gromit]

We do not have an energy supply problem.
We export the same amount of oil that we import.
The North sea and Arabia keep us well supplied with gas. There are reserves still in theNorth Sea to last at least another 50 years.
We do not need fracking.

[Spicerack]

I thought 'our' environmentalists would keep a low profile for a while all things considered. Seems I was wrong.

[Gromit]

Spicerack,
No one on here has opposed fracking from an environmental perspective.
It is very uneconomical, and will not produce anything like the energy we need.
More North Sea licenses is the way forward, and more investment in solar and wind.

[Spicerack]

Gromit //We do not have an energy supply problem.// 1:32pm

Gromit /// It (fracking)is very uneconomical, and will not produce anything like the energy we need./// 1:49pm

Just admit you are against it for ideological reasons.

[FatticusInch]

From Sky News.

Scotland will not grant fracking licences despite Truss lifting ban
Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland will not grant any fracking licences, despite Liz Truss lifting the moratorium.
As the issue is a devolved matter, the administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland retain control over whether to allow shale gas extraction.
She quoted new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, who previously said “no amount of shale gas would be enough to lower the European price”

Claws out already?!

[Tippier]

I live not too far away from one of the test sites. A lot of our water comes from aquifers so it's not so much what's going into the ground as what comes out of it. Contamination of drinking water in Australia raised a few questions. The local site here is not far from the nuclear plant at Salwick. What could possibly go wrong?