The issue has been in the news again recently with increasingly high energy prices around the world, governments are looking to alternate sources.
I think it's something we should be doing sooner or later, it's just about the technology being good enough and making sure that the nation benefits from the financial advantages rather than private energy companies. I'm more in favour of fracking than against but causing earth tremors in populated areas is risky, especially if the fracking is carried out by the same companies responsible for oil spills and other environmental fuck ups.
Uk article:
I think it's something we should be doing sooner or later, it's just about the technology being good enough and making sure that the nation benefits from the financial advantages rather than private energy companies. I'm more in favour of fracking than against but causing earth tremors in populated areas is risky, especially if the fracking is carried out by the same companies responsible for oil spills and other environmental fuck ups.
Uk article:
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer in order to release the gas inside. The injection of fluid at high pressure into the rock can cause earth tremors - small movements in the earth's surface.
More than 120 tremors .
Seismic events of this scale are considered minor and are rarely felt by people - but are a concern to local residents.
In the face of opposition, and concerns from the Oil and Gas Authority, fracking was halted in the UK in 2019.
But in April 2022, following the Russia invasion of Ukraine and rising energy bills, the government said "all options" were on the table to help boost the UK's domestic energy supply.
Then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng .
That report, newly-published, concluded that: "Forecasting the occurrence of large earthquakes… remains a scientific challenge for the geoscience community."
Shale gas is also a fossil fuel, and campaigners say the resumption of fracking risks distracting energy firms and governments from investing in renewable and green sources of energy.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said doubling down on fossil fuels was a "ludicrous" answer to the energy crisis, given the threat posed by climate change.
Fracking also uses huge amounts of water, which must be transported to the site at significant environmental cost
It is thought that fracking has given energy security to the US and Canada for the next 100 years, and has presented an opportunity to generate electricity at half the CO2 emissions of coal.
Fracking remains banned in numerous EU countries, including Germany, France and Spain, as well as Australia.
Authorities in countries including Brazil and Argentina are split, with some banning the practice, and others allowing operations.
More than 120 tremors .
Seismic events of this scale are considered minor and are rarely felt by people - but are a concern to local residents.
In the face of opposition, and concerns from the Oil and Gas Authority, fracking was halted in the UK in 2019.
But in April 2022, following the Russia invasion of Ukraine and rising energy bills, the government said "all options" were on the table to help boost the UK's domestic energy supply.
Then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng .
That report, newly-published, concluded that: "Forecasting the occurrence of large earthquakes… remains a scientific challenge for the geoscience community."
Shale gas is also a fossil fuel, and campaigners say the resumption of fracking risks distracting energy firms and governments from investing in renewable and green sources of energy.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said doubling down on fossil fuels was a "ludicrous" answer to the energy crisis, given the threat posed by climate change.
Fracking also uses huge amounts of water, which must be transported to the site at significant environmental cost
It is thought that fracking has given energy security to the US and Canada for the next 100 years, and has presented an opportunity to generate electricity at half the CO2 emissions of coal.
Fracking remains banned in numerous EU countries, including Germany, France and Spain, as well as Australia.
Authorities in countries including Brazil and Argentina are split, with some banning the practice, and others allowing operations.
Citizen Koba
Comment