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This house would restrict the use of ‘fracking’ to extract natural gas from shale
This house would restrict the use of ‘fracking’ to extract natural gas from shale
This is a discussion on the Debatabase item titled: This house would restrict the use of ‘fracking’ to extract natural gas from shale.Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!
1 year 1 week ago
I am slightly surprised to find that James Lovelock (known for his Gaia theory) is in favour of fracking arguing that it is a much better alternative than coal "Gas is almost a give-away in the US at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it." http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/15/james-lovelock-intervi...
48 weeks 16 hours ago
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The Chairman of the Environment Agency in the United Kingdom is backing the expansion of 'fracking'. Fracking is a controversial method of getting gas out of shale rocks that involves splitting the rock using high pressure water. There have been accusations in the United States of gas seeping into water supplies and suggestions that it increases the risk of earthquakes - Blackpool, where there has been fracking, usually a very stable area far away from any tectonic fault lines experienced one last year. Lord Smith however is expected to say that the Environment Agency will not stop the process so long as there is careful monitoring to overcome environmental risks.
Is fracking now likely to go ahead in Britain and is the country right to do so? Other European countries, notably France, have banned the process.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17987356
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