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UK goes full speed ahead on shale gas fracking.

Why are they going down the fracking road? coal bed Gasification seems much more productive and its largely undersea.
 
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erm, bollocks.

The crown owns the rights to underground gas, coal, oil resources, property owners have no say in the matter unless it directly impacts on their property AFAIK.
 
didn't know this !!! WTF
Depleted uranium used in the shaped charges in perforating guns ......."cuts through rock like a hot knife through butter"

perforating_gun%5B1%5D.jpg

http://rt.com/op-edge/fracking-radioactive-uranium-danger-ecology-057/

genius ....If the Iraqi's no longer want it sprayed at them , I guess that haliburton has got to get rid of it somehow .....
 
Oh yeah, hence the radioactive waste disposal licence that these fuckers have to apply for.

Not too sure why, as most of it's unrecoverable as it's seeped away into fuck knows where.
 
I thought that those licences were due to NORM being in the waste dissolved out of the shale .

Just what the hell is in the first out venting ? ....burning it isn't going to do squat other than increasing the dispersal area downwind ....
 
Rutita1 said:
Launched by Greenpeace?
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Dubious in the way the information is presented.

Take where I live. I live near two rivers and a number of railway tunnels (used and unused) and former coal workings. There is no way this address or immediate area would be a sensible location for fracking, even if such a licence would be given and gas was thought to be there. So I'm more than a little sceptical that this site is giving accurate information. Admittedly, there could be a problem with the algorithm that used to determine if fracking would take place at the address given (it could be defaulting to always saying fracking would take place, for example).

Just because it's got the Greenpeace name all over it doesn't been the information given is accurate.
 
equationgirl said:
Just because it's got the Greenpeace name all over it doesn't been the information given is accurate.
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I didn't say it is/would be.

I now live in SE4. The nearest water to me is my bathroom/kitchen tap! Yet my post code registers high on that. :D I am left wondering to be honest, just like you. How likely are you to be fracked? <===makes more sense to me if they are suggesting how likely people are to be affected by fracking.
 
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/depleted_uranium_used_in_perfora

From: Helen Chuntso

5 October 2013
Dear Salford City Council,

I would like to draw your attention to the following link, a google
search for 'depleted uranium' / perforation guns used in the high
pressure hydraulic fracturing method.

If the link does not work, using the following text will bring up
the same results on google:

"depleted uranium" "perf|perforation|perforating gun"

There are 100+ patents using Depleted Uranium in Fracking Perf
Guns. Amongst the patent holders are Halliburton. Aerosolized DU is
known to cause birth defects. Well flushing and flaring will emit
Depleted Uranium on the surface environment.
As birth defects ar horrific from the damage depleted uranium
causes, even WHO has refused to release a report on the situation.
Please search googel for images of 'depleted uranium birth defects'
and then consider my request below.

Under the Freedom of Information Act I would like you to answer the
following questions:

1) Are you aware what technology is being used to create the well
at Barton Moss, Irlam? Please answer yes or no.

2)Please provide documentary evidence to confirm your satisfaction
that depleted uranium technology is not being used, in order to
support your granting of planning approval.

3) Please advise if Salford City Council approves of using depleted
uranium in the use of exploration/ extraction of unconventional
gases such as Coal Bed Methane.

Please note,it is now on record that Salford City Council have been
informed that Depleted Uranium is used in unconventional onshore
gas / oil exploration and extraction. I hope this information will
be investigated by yourselves BEFORE you allow IGas to drill for
CBM at Barton Moss.

I look forward to hearing from you and I hope we can make public
knowledge of your assurances that depleted uranium will not be
allowed to be used in Salford in the near future.

I am grateful for your attention to this very important matter.

Yours faithfully,

Helen Chuntso
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As if the use of hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel pumped down in the US wasn't enough ....... !
 
Mr.Bishie said:
The whole fracking process


Are those DU charges widely used then?
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Dunno ..only read it last night ...It seems certain that the US government hasn't a clue on its usage , as it hasnt asked to be told , but there is an ongoing experiment on US population and environment on long term DU contamination (Colonie, NY). so they must be aware of its issues.

Apparently its not just in the shaped charge explosives . but also in the drilling heads and parts .....
http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servlet/onepetropreview?id=00005545

its like lifting the stone , there are real nasties underneath , and the more you lift....!
 
I don't get what the rush to do this is - the Norwegians got rich by leaving their oil in the sea bed...
Who knows there may be less damaging technology to do it in the future too?
 
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lt35 said:
I don't get what the rush to do this is - the Norwegians got rich by leaving their oil in the sea bed...
Who knows there may be less damaging technology to do it in the future too?
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No, the Norwegians got rich because they sensibly invested the money in infrastructure and putting it somewhere safe. Leaving the oil unexploited doesn't magically make them rich.
 
equationgirl said:
No, the Norwegians got rich because they sensibly invested the money in infrastructure and putting it somewhere safe. Leaving the oil unexploited doesn't magically make them rich.
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Oh right, over family dinner the general consensus was that Sweden has much better roads, yet Norway has much higher road tolls. Still, wouldn't bother me if they were wrong :D
 
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Sussex is now on the front line of the controversial fracking revolution.

The Government announced yesterday it was lifting its ban on the shale gas extraction process, opening up dozens of drilling sites across the county.
The Argus has discovered that 15 licences for exploring Sussex’s reserves have already been issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The areas covered by the permits span hundreds of thousands of acres of Sussex countryside and include towns and villages such as Balcombe, Midhurst, Petworth, Bolney, Haywards Heath, Crawley, Billinghurst, Barnham, Bognor, Uckfield and Crowborough.
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http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10109157.Fracking_frontline_as_Sussex_has_15_licences_to_drill/
 
yeah of course, not targeting Sussex! imagine a fair few down there any way
just thinking if a few of those operations were on the go at the same time they couldn't all be opposed.
 
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