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U.K. Halts Fracking in England, Citing Quake Concerns
Prime Minister Boris Johnson once hailed fracking as “glorious news for humanity,” and said the British government should “leave no stone unturned, or unfracked.”
But in a major U-turn, Mr. Johnson’s government announced on Saturday that it would temporarily halt fracking in the only active site in Britain, in northwestern England. The move came after a government agency, the Oil and Gas Authority, concluded this past week that it could not rule out “unacceptable” consequences for people living near fracking sites, including pollution risks and earthquake-related damage.
It was a victory for environmental groups, and might deprive opposition parties of a potentially powerful campaign issue in a general election just weeks away.
Jonathan Bartley, a leader of the Green Party, described the move as “very, very welcome.” But he told the BBC that the group wanted an absolute commitment from the government to ban the practice outright.
On Twitter, his co-leader, Sian Berry, wrote: “Banning fracking is for life, not just for Christmas.”
The leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, tweeted on Saturday that the government moratorium was only a “temporary pause” and “an election stunt to try and win a few votes.” His party would ban fracking permanently, he said.
Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, involves injecting water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to fracture shale rock and recover natural gas from it. The practice has proved controversial and carries potential environmental and community costs.
In the Netherlands, hundreds of earthquakes linked to gas extraction have damaged thousands of homes and buildings. France and Germany have banned fracking, and Scotland and Wales have long had their own moratoriums on the technique.
The extracting technique is a major source of oil and gas revenues in the United States, Canada and Argentina. It has been bitterly opposed by environmental activists and local groups in Britain, where a series of earthquakes, including one in August, have hit the only active fracking site in the country, near the seaside town Blackpool.
Britain’s business and energy secretary, Andrea Leadsom, said on Saturday that shale gas had “huge potential” but that its exploration should be “carried out safely.”
“After reviewing the O.G.A.’s report into recent seismic activity at Preston New Road, it is clear that we cannot rule out future unacceptable impacts on the local community,” Ms. Leadsom said in a statement.
Activities at the site near Blackpool, managed by the shale gas group Cuadrilla Resources, were suspended after the Aug. 26 earthquake, which measured 2.9 on the Richter scale.
In May 2011, shale gas drilling was suspended at the Blackpool site after small earthquakes were documented by the British Geological Survey. Last year, Cuadrilla halted fracking after a tremor measuring 0.8 magnitude was recorded.
The company had no immediate reaction to the government’s moratorium on Saturday.
Fracking has been views as a potentially toxic issue for the governing Conservative Party. Unlike in the United States, where shale gas can be extracted in remote areas, many potential fracking sites in densely populated Britain have been near residential areas, where residents have often angrily opposed it.
According to the newspaper The Yorkshire Post, an event at the Conservative Party conference in September discussed the potential for fracking to affect up to 200 electoral districts, 40 of them marginal.
Protesters have camped for years near the Preston Road site and have fought the company in court. Three protesters were jailed in September 2018 for blocking the site and climbing on trucks there, and protesters once kept 24-hour vigils to monitor Cuadrilla’s activity.
“To contaminate a major food-growing area for a little bit of gas is insane,” a retired university professor, Celia Briar, told The New York Times in 2018.
Governments in Britain, which has long valued its oil industry, have supported shale exploration for the major revenues the technique could bring. Yet, a government spending watchdog found last month that the government had invested 32 million pounds, or $41 million, in fracking activities since 2011, with little result so far.
The government said the new moratorium would be put in place with immediate effect and continue until “compelling new evidence” had shown that fracking did not put local populations at risk.
85 Comments on "U.K. Halts Fracking in England, Citing Quake Concerns"
supremacist muzzies jerk on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 9:10 am
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JuanP the eleventh on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 10:06 am
“How can fix my widdle temper because I am mentally sick. I am not mentally right”
Best projection ever Davy!
LOL
full woke full tarded supremacist muzzies jerk double rainbow all the way across the sky so intense whoa it looks like a triple rainbow what does it mean WDIM OMG on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 10:23 am
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Tnx
Antius on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 10:29 am
“But where to go? Nevada, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico are solid Blue, and Arizona is trending Blue with Texas not far behind as age demographics work against the Reds. In the last election, voters aged 18 to 34 voted Democratic by the largest margin ever recorded- 35%, and Republican voters ain’t getting any younger.”
Yeah. The (Social) Democrats are rapidly turning the whole world to shit. Everything they touch seems to turn into shit that normal hardworking people just want to get away from. Chicago, California, practically the entire east coast now. DerHundistLos must be really proud.
Antius on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 11:06 am
China produced 23% more electricity from nuclear power, 253.53TWh, between January and September than in the same period last year, according to figures released by the China Nuclear Energy Association. This represents 4.8% of China’s total power generation during the first three quarters of 2019.
https://wna.informz.ca/informzdataservi … IyMDY2MTg4
China’s nuclear generating capacity is growing at a rapid pace of 18.6% growth per year (in 2018). If that growth rate continues for another decade, the Chinese will be generating about a quarter of their present electricity consumption from nuclear energy and will have around 3 times as much nuclear generating capacity as France.
Do you suppose these people know something that we don’t?
Antius on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 11:08 am
A link that works this time:
https://tinyurl.com/y3cpztvv
Hello on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 11:37 am
>>> Do you suppose these people know something that we don’t?
Let’s wait till they have the first serious accident. Then we reassess the situation.
A concerned US citizen on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:21 pm
“JuanP the eleventh”
Sure eleventh butt wipe. You are as far as they get to mentally not right. You belong back in your turd world shit hole county. Please leave the USA.
full woke full tarded supremacist muzzies jerk double rainbow all the way across the sky so intense whoa it looks like a triple rainbow what does it mean WDIM OMG on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:21 pm
Darn it I forgot maximum newspeak
full woke full tarded supremacist muzzies jerk maximum newspeak double rainbow all the way across the sky so intense whoa it looks like a triple rainbow what does it mean WDIM OMG on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:23 pm
Again
Another Davy sock puppet on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:23 pm
A concerned US citizen
Davy on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:24 pm
“Yeah. The (Social) Democrats are rapidly turning the whole world to shit.”
It is just the radical ones doing most of the damage. The democratic party has been ruined and may never recover. it is a shame some people try to feel proud of that failure instead of facing the music and initiating meaningful change.
JuanP is insane on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:25 pm
The 12th butt wipe and still stinks JuanPee.
Davy on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 12:29 pm
“If that growth rate continues for another decade”
Better to wonder if China will still be a functioning country as we know it today in a decade. Considering China’s track record on environmental policy such a huge amount of NUK power is scary.
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Y’all need to respect supertard davy
We need to help send Nixon to china
REAL Davy on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 1:39 pm
Better to wonder if America will still be a functioning country as we know it today in a decade. Considering America’s track record on environmental policy such a huge amount of NUK power is scary.
JuanP ID theft on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 1:52 pm
This is from stupid:
REAL Davy said Better to wonder if America will still be a functi…
Antius on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 1:54 pm
US nuclear reactors are old. Most of them were built in the 1970s. Thanks to careful chemistry control, their operational lives have mostly been extended. But ultimately, steam generator tube plates develop leaks; core shrouds suffer corrosion; main coolant pump bearings wear out. The lifetime of nuclear power plants can only be extended so long.
Davy ID theft on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 1:56 pm
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JuanP ID theft on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 1:52 pm
full woke supertard Cloggie muh Dresden muh Dresden I want my railroad car so signing france surrender on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 3:08 pm
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Cloggie on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 3:53 pm
There are growing sings that a relatively new concept of a hybrid solar panel-collector is picking up globally. Panel harvest 20% of the solar radiation and transform it into electricity, leaving the rest of the 80% wasted. PVT modules generate both electricity AND hot water or air for heating purposes. PVT really gets interesting if combined with seasonal storage of heat:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/11/05/photovoltaic-thermal-hybrid-solar-collectors/
“Photovoltaic Thermal Hybrid Solar Collectors”
In Europe 50% of primary energy is used for heating purposes.
Antius on Tue, 5th Nov 2019 4:25 pm
I can see problems with hybrid panels. The heat might be useful if panels are mounted on a roof, but not so much if the panels are on a utility grade power plant miles from anywhere. Utility grade plants produce much cheaper power. Roof mounted panels are a niche solution.
Typically, we want heat at 30-50C for domestic hot water. At that temperature, you start to significantly reduce the efficiency of the PV part of the system. Problems. There are no free lunches in the world.
Cloggie on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 12:54 am
“I can see problems with hybrid panels. The heat might be useful if panels are mounted on a roof, but not so much if the panels are on a utility grade power plant miles from anywhere. Utility grade plants produce much cheaper power. Roof mounted panels are a niche solution.”
Yes, but I would not describe covering every roof with PVT as a “niche solution”.
The ideas is to have heat storage in your direct neighborhood. Think 800 households owning a hole in the ground with concrete casing of 50 m in diameter. During the Summer that heat battery is charged with warm water from PVT modules from said 800 households. You can use heat pumps to increase the temperature level.
Overpopulated countries like Holland, England and Flanders are not suitable for large solar arrays in the fields. We need to cover roofs first.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/hybrid-solar/
Cloggie on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 1:00 am
The seasonal storage company Ecovat has received elevated status by the EU, connected to “Mission Innovation”:
https://www.ecovat.eu/artikelen/mission-innovation-breakthroughs/
“Mission Innovation” is a selection of 70 companies, now including Ecovat, that are identified as the most promising to push through the global energy transition.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/?s=ecovat
It is no surprise that Ecovat developed a PVT module to complete their seasonal storage offering:
https://www.ecovat.eu/ecovat/ecovat-pvt-module/?lang=en
Davy on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 5:18 am
“There are growing sings that a relatively new concept of a hybrid solar panel-collector is picking up globally.”
“Typically, we want heat at 30-50C for domestic hot water. At that temperature, you start to significantly reduce the efficiency of the PV part of the system. Problems. There are no free lunches in the world.”
As cheap as solar thermal is I wonder if the added complexity of hybrid panels is worth it for individuals not in a collective. In the summer I have 60 evacuated solar thermal tubes heating the 100 gal tank in my wood boiler (https://tinyurl.com/y52tcjd5). This allows me to preheat my hot water heater with the heat exchanger system already in place with that system. It allows me to stop burning wood in April until October. This is a preheating system. Inside I have an electric heater that does not work as much because it is getting preheated water at typically 150 degrees. I prefer simple solutions because once a system is installed costs remain in the form of problems and failures.
Cloggie on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 7:30 am
If it’s a Boeing I’m not going.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/06/boeing-737-cracks-ryanair-grounds-three-planes-due-to-cracking-between-wing-and-fuselage
“Boeing 737 cracks: Ryanair grounds three planes due to cracking between wing and fuselage”
Just kidding, Eindhoven airport almost exclusively operates with B737.
Cloggie on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 7:33 am
“As cheap as solar thermal is I wonder if the added complexity of hybrid panels is worth it for individuals not in a collective. In the summer I have 60 evacuated solar thermal tubes heating the 100 gal tank in my wood boiler”
Thermal collectors have more decarbonization potential than panels. THE issue in the city is space. Economically PVT makes very wel sense.
Davy on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 7:42 am
agreed
JuanP ID theft on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 8:31 am
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Davy said agreed….
Davy on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 8:51 am
“If it’s a Boeing I’m not going.”
Good one cloggo.
LOL!
JuanP garbage on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 8:55 am
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Davy said “If it’s a Boeing I’m not going.” Good one cloggo….
JuanP ID theft said This is from stupid: Davy said agreed….
Davy.ID Fraud on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 9:39 am
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supremacist muzzies jerk on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 10:18 am
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supremacist muzzies jerk my neighbor got big testicles we see this dude everyday we ate ribs with this dude on Wed, 6th Nov 2019 10:24 am
Supertard Marc says ISP muzxies lovin block jihadwatch. How long before muzzies take over innernet and enforce sharia anti blasphemy