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:eek: Just heard news that the Vale county council intends to give the go-ahead to exploratory work for a gas-fracking operation in Llandow, just up the road from where I live.

Fracking works by drilling deep then pumping fracturing fluid at a pressure high enough to fracture the rock, thus releasing gas. It is the subject of no small amount of controversy in the States, where it is alleged to release highly toxic agents including carcinogens and endocrine disruptors into the ground, air and, potentially, grounwater sources.

Anyways, feels strange and somewhat worrying to think about something like this coming so close to where I live. Further information here. It might be time for me to do a more portly and middle-aged reprise of my activities at Newbury if they're determined to go ahead.:cool:
 
Aye. I've sent emails to Janes Davidson and Hutt as well as to the council. Big public meeting planned in Llantwit Major next week. Things definitely starting to pick up.
 
Just to bump this highly populated thread;)

Coastal oil and gas have withdrawn their planning applications due to local pressure. Vale activists discovered a load of existing boreholes in the area that hadn't been mapped by the Environment Agency, as well as a house within a couple of hundred metres of the proposed site that hadn't been taken into account.

This naturally just means that the bastards will seek out another site elsewhere in the Vale to add to existing test sites in Aberavon, the Garw valley and one other that I forget.
 
application resubmitted

Walesonline said:
The application was withdrawn by the company last April after it was made aware of a private house near the proposed test-drilling site.
The fresh application, which follows a noise impact survey on the property, is likely to go before Vale of Glamorgan councillors next month.
The company is partners with Australian firm Eden Energy which holds 10 exploration licences across South Wales and has said the operation has the potential to “transform the Welsh economy”.

Despite calls from, among others, Vale council leader Gordon Kemp for the issue to be dealt with by the Welsh Government, the application will be dealt with by the Vale council’s planning committee. Planners have recommended that it should be approved.
In their previous report planners said noise impact on nearby properties would be “transitory at worst” and it would be “unreasonable to refuse to permit this proposal”.
However, if the test drilling concluded that there was potential for a full-scale fracking operation, any subsequent application could be “called in” by the Welsh Government.
Mr Kemp reiterated his view that since the issue was of “national significance” it should be dealt with by the Welsh Government.
He said: “We need to establish a national policy on this which we have not got at the moment. I’m aware that this application is not for fracking as such, but I think it should still go to the Welsh Government.”

Louise Evans, who founded the Vale Says No group to oppose the application, said: “It comes as no surprise to us that the application has been resubmitted.
“We have started up the campaign again and this time we feel we are far better prepared and equipped to fight it
“If this is allowed to go ahead, even at this test stage, the effect to the local community will be felt immediately. We will continue to fight this application and raise awareness so everyone can have their say on the issue.”
She continued: “Our government needs to make an informed decision instead of jumping into this new industry with its eyes shut and realising the consequences when it is too late.”
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sly bastards
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...eignited-in-vale-of-glamorgan-91466-29283508/
 
The application was withdrawn by the company last April after it was made aware of a private house near the proposed test-drilling site.

The fresh application, which follows a noise impact survey on the property, is likely to go before Vale of Glamorgan councillors next month.

The company is partners with Australian firm Eden Energy which holds 10 exploration licences across South Wales and has said the operation has the potential to “transform the Welsh economy”.
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Transform the owner's bank balances more like.
 
editor said:
Transform the owner's bank balances more like.
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I went to the public meeting a few months ago, and the cheeky bastard actually had the effrontery to claim that he was only doing it to help reduce the UK's carbon footprint and to boost the economy of Wales. Such munificence! Such philanthropy!
 
I cant wait for the oil company involved to insist that people in Llandow have always been able to set their tap water on fire.
 
agricola said:
I cant wait for the oil company involved to insist that people in Llandow have always been able to set their tap water on fire.
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.... and lots and lots of small earthquakes. If you break up the bedrock and lubricate it with fluids, it tends to slip a bit.
 
been sent this
Sept 23 in Bridgend
Hello Everyone,

I am emailing to give you some information about a screening of GASLAND, to be held at Bridgend College on September 23rd (630-10pm), for 120-150 people.

This is the inaugeral event in the Co-operative group's new Frack Free UK Campaign - part of the Toxic Fuels campaign.

As well as the screening, the event will have a keynote address from Calvin Jones, and a World Cafe style facilitated discussion. I am facilitating and setting up the event, so do contact me for any further information.

4 x 1 minute films will be made, featuring local campaigners, which will form part of the online campaign.

This event forms part of a series around the UK, the next will be in Blackpool in October.

I am currently putting the invite list together for this event. We would like to get AS MANY people from the affected communities along as possible, plus as many influential figures from the area as we can.

Please could you send me all your suggestions by the end of this week? I would be very grateful.

Fracking is a big issue for South Wales and I hope that this event and campaign will enable the passionate grassroots campaigners who have been working hard in South Wales to connect with a UK-wide Co-operative campaign that we can all feel proud of.

With very best wishes,
Sarah.
Frack Free UK Facilitator
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This has probably been mentioned on other threads but if you can, watch "Gasland". A documentary on fracking across the USA that has caused all sorts of horrendous problems.
 
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fracking gas
 
I wonder if this was influenced by the report by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering that declared fracking safe if tightly regulated?

Either way, it comes as no surprise. The shift away from renewables and towards methods such as fracking as a means of desperately and belatedly dealing with the increasingly precarious energy situation in the UK is gathering pace, and woe betide you if your community happens to be sat on limestone shales.

Thing is, there was little grounds to oppose the test drilling, and I always feared it was going to get the green light at some point. I think the real battle will come with the almost inevitable application to begin extraction further down the line. From what I can gather the potential contamination of local aquifers, which represent the backup water supply for the entire area, sounds like a pretty good place to start.
 
Shameful, absolutely shameful. As an engineer, I strongly believe fracking is not safe.

Water contamination is more than likely, in my opinion, given that nobody knows where the fracture lines go, or for how far.
 
rearing its ugly head again :mad:
the comments are very depressing
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...s-could-power-uk-for-16-years-91466-32944247/
The Senedd’s Environment and Sustainability Committee has heard evidence on the controversial method of shale gas extraction commonly known as fracking.
Among those addressing the committee was Gerwyn Williams, director of Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd – the group applying to test drill in south Wales. Mr Williams said a report from one US consultant based in Dallas showed there is over 50 trillion cubic feet of shale gas lying under one part of south Wales. He said: “The UK currently uses around 3.5 trillion cubic feet each year so we already know that we have 16 years of energy lying under south Wales.
“But we have only just scratched the surface. “We now know that through similar methods America has a 100-year gas supply, there is no reason why we cannot be in the same position.
“There is a big prize for everyone in Wales if this works.”
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ooh look! loads of it! :rolleyes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22748915
One of the energy firms hoping to exploit the UK's resources of shale gas says it may be sitting on significantly more gas than previously thought.

UK firm IGas says there may be up to 170 trillion cubic feet of gas in the areas it is licensed to explore in northern England.
But it remains unclear how much of the gas will be economically extractable
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Not just Llandlow .... but also LLantrithyd and another site near Bonvilston ..... bound to annoy the Cowbridge set ......lot of monies and legal expertise there no doubt , with a keen eye on personal property prices as a motivational factor .....
This is all somewhat remarkably below the radar ....only found out about the Llantrithyd site while wandering about in LLantwit Majors victoria day yesterday ...http://thevalesaysno.com/?p=33 were handing out leaflets .....might just tool along to the community meeting in Bonvilston , to take a looksee ....bit too close to home .......

Way too much in tune with the utter dishonesty of the nuclear industry start up for my liking ........the carrot of cheap power with an utter disregard or even planning for the future legacy issues it will leave in its wake .......Once the water table is poisoned ...theres no going back .......bloody madness in a primarily agricultural area ......
 
I read some energy scenarios for Wales recently for 2014-2025.

When you're talking in terawatt hours, there is a gigantic void that needs to be filled, even after the assumption that a new nuke plant will be built in Wylfa (which will face massive protests) and a pretty massive renewables deployment (which also faces massive protests at the scale needed). The Severn Barrage would fill a decent gap but that's as far away as ever, with FoE recently cheering it's latest set back. :confused:

That void will be filled with either fracked gas or imported gas. Or demand will outstrip supply. And that's just for electricity, we also need gas to heat our homes.

How big that void is depends on economic growth. But if we return to the growth we all desire, the gap becomes pretty scary.
If anyone's interested I'll dig the figures out tomorrow.

I see a lot of protests about what people don't want, but very little constructive suggestions on how we realistically want to power our country.
 
Severn barrage and the tidal lagoons off swansea bay would have got my vote in a shot

That void has been deliberately engineered to force this .......labour knew there was a long term problem going into government back in the 90's , just band aiding right on farcical wind generation as a sop ....

Fracking test sites here

http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2013/00334/FUL Llandow Trading Estate
http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2013/00335/FUL Land on the west side of the road leading from Llancarfan to Bonvilston
http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2013/00333/FUL Site located in field 400m along an un-named road between the A4266 and Duffryn
 
Tankus said:
Not just Llandlow .... but also LLantrithyd and another site near Bonvilston ..... bound to annoy the Cowbridge set ......lot of monies and legal expertise there no doubt , with a keen eye on personal property prices as a motivational factor .....
This is all somewhat remarkably below the radar ....only found out about the Llantrithyd site while wandering about in LLantwit Majors victoria day yesterday ...http://thevalesaysno.com/?p=33 were handing out leaflets .....might just tool along to the community meeting in Bonvilston , to take a looksee ....bit too close to home .......

Way too much in tune with the utter dishonesty of the nuclear industry start up for my liking ........the carrot of cheap power with an utter disregard or even planning for the future legacy issues it will leave in its wake .......Once the water table is poisoned ...theres no going back .......bloody madness in a primarily agricultural area ......
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I'm from LLantrithyd family still there, will ask them what they know of all this.
 
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