Give us a fracking break!

[mybrainhurts]

Oh, strewth, the fracktards are overactive in South Yorkshire now.

Just had this four page glossy dumped on me..

http://www.frackfreesouthyorkshire.co.uk/

There's a contact link in there...not that I'd suggest offering any advice, of course...

[hidetheelephants]

mybrainhurts said:

Oh, strewth, the fracktards are overactive in South Yorkshire now.

Just had this four page glossy dumped on me..

http://www.frackfreesouthyorkshire.co.uk/

There's a contact link in there...not that I'd suggest offering any advice, of course...

Mounting levels of scaremongering and uncontrollable discharge of fabricated bullst more like.

[AdeTuono]

mybrainhurts said:

Oh, strewth, the fracktards are overactive in South Yorkshire now.

Just had this four page glossy dumped on me..

http://www.frackfreesouthyorkshire.co.uk/

There's a contact link in there...not that I'd suggest offering any advice, of course...

I can't read that. Got a few pages in, but my piss was approaching 100˚C. Surely it's not acceptable to publish such bks as fact?

[HD Adam]

I really enjoyed the fracking facts on that site

[hidetheelephants]

Javid to give verdict on Cuadrilla planning appeal. Hopefully an outbreak of rationality, but we'll see.

[FiF]

Approved

[Randy Winkman]

What happened to "Localism"? It was a load of cobblers wasn't it? Edited to add that May's nonsense about ordinary workers will go the same way. i.e. Nowhere.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Randy Winkman said:

What happened to "Localism"? It was a load of cobblers wasn't it?

Well if you want the lights to stay on and you don't want a £12,000 per year energy bill, just be thankful.

[Randy Winkman]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Randy Winkman said:

What happened to "Localism"? It was a load of cobblers wasn't it?

Well if you want the lights to stay on and you don't want a £12,000 per year energy bill, just be thankful.

OK. I'm thankful. Because they aren't doing it round my way. So I win both ways.

[FredClogs]

Little plumpton site has been approved, Roseacre is still not decided on. I think most local people and the county council were at least resigned to that outcome, there is genuine issues with the roseacre site around access and the local environment.

Not much chatter on here about what's happened in Oaklahoma over the last 2 months, 37 wells shut down after some pretty sizeable earth quakes.

[Swervin_Mervin]

FredClogs said:

Not much chatter on here about what's happened in Oaklahoma over the last 2 months, 37 wells shut down after some pretty sizeable earth quakes.

Isn't that down to waste-water disposal wells, not directly the fracking itself?

[Mrr T]

FredClogs said:

Little plumpton site has been approved, Roseacre is still not decided on. I think most local people and the county council were at least resigned to that outcome, there is genuine issues with the roseacre site around access and the local environment.

Not much chatter on here about what's happened in Oaklahoma over the last 2 months, 37 wells shut down after some pretty sizeable earth quakes.

Well we know this much:

https://earthquakes.ok.gov/faqs/

[FredClogs]

Swervin_Mervin said:

FredClogs said:

Not much chatter on here about what's happened in Oaklahoma over the last 2 months, 37 wells shut down after some pretty sizeable earth quakes.

Isn't that down to waste-water disposal wells, not directly the fracking itself?

I think so, I'm no expert, but I believe it's the waste water wells that have been cited as the cause of the quakes. Presumably you don't get one without the other though, the process on the whole is causing the quakes.

[Halb]

Randy Winkman said:

What happened to "Localism"? It was a load of cobblers wasn't it? Edited to add that May's nonsense about ordinary workers will go the same way. i.e. Nowhere.

Indeed.

[Swervin_Mervin]

FredClogs said:

Swervin_Mervin said:

FredClogs said:

Not much chatter on here about what's happened in Oaklahoma over the last 2 months, 37 wells shut down after some pretty sizeable earth quakes.

Isn't that down to waste-water disposal wells, not directly the fracking itself?

I think so, I'm no expert, but I believe it's the waste water wells that have been cited as the cause of the quakes. Presumably you don't get one without the other though, the process on the whole is causing the quakes.

my understanding is that in the UK the wastewater would be transported away and treated by third parties.

[FredClogs]

Swervin_Mervin said:

my understanding is that in the UK the wastewater would be transported away and treated by third parties.

Again I'm not expert. I believe the proposal for test drilling sites is such but whether that's feasible for long term operations I don't know, obviously central Lancashire has a different geography and geology to Oklahoma, I'm not suggesting we'd have these issues at the test sites, I just thought it worthy of discussion on the thread that these factors are occurring within the industry.

And whilst people who don't live near the proposed sites might consider earth tremors in Blackpool a risk worth taking, if you live in the area where there has been earth quakes due to the failure of one if these wells it's something of a consideration.

[zygalski]

I spy with my little eye...
Lots of potential NIMBYs in this thread.

[Esseesse]

zygalski said:

I spy with my little eye...
Lots of potential NIMBYs in this thread.

What is the visual impact of fracking? Some tall drilling rig type things that eventually get taken away?

[FredClogs]

zygalski said:

I spy with my little eye...
Lots of potential NIMBYs in this thread.

That's not how you play eye spy...

[AdeTuono]

Esseesse said:

What is the visual impact of fracking? Some tall drilling rig type things that eventually get taken away?