“Scandalous” shortage of money for research into public engagement on fracking, conference told
Two leading academics called this afternoon for independent funding for research into community engagement and public attitudes to shale gas.
Nuisance earthquakes predictable if “small amounts” of frack fluid leak into faults
People living near fracking operations in north-west England might need to get used to earthquakes, a conference heard yesterday.
Don’t expect UK fracking to be cheap or easy, conference told
4th March 2014 Shale UK conference report 2 Fracking shale oil and gas in Britain will be technically and socially challenging, Professor Joe Cartwright, of Oxford University, told the Shale UK conference today. He was one of a series of speakers who spelled out the difficulties facing a UK […]
33,000 shale gas wells in Lancashire, professor estimates
4th March 2014 Shale UK conference report 1 To recover 15 per cent of shale gas from the Upper Bowland Basin in Lancashire would need 33,000 wells on 5,500 pads, an industry conference heard today. The estimate by Andy Aplin, Professor of Unconventional Petroleum Development at Durham University, […]
Two major fracking events: two sides of the argument
1st March 2014 March sees two major events in the fracking debate. They bring together some of the biggest names in the industry and, potentially, the largest gathering of the anti-fracking community.
DRILL OR DROP? 