Fracking At Borras.
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@Sheefag 17221 wrote:
Simple economics Metalhead, the land is worth far, far more and the Wrexham land doesn’t have a congested underground network of sewers, power lines, comms cables and a Tube network.
Disagree, this part of Wrexham has a significant network running underneath it, likely to contain a naturally formed unpleasant substance. Also the drilling companies pledge that once they are done with a site then they will return it ‘as though they were never there’. They also claim that fears that property values will be hit by having a fracking rig next door are unsubstantiated (which is nonsense, anyone who has done any research on this would never buy a house where there was/had been/likely to be an extraction point of this kind). So in theory the value of the land should be irrelevant…
Also they would know precisely where all the things you mentioned are located and could easily drill down without hitting any of them (and then horizontally to extract). Taking one of your examples the London tube, this is located around 60m below ground, CBM is generally drilled at around 800m – 1000m, shale much deeper than that (the Blackpool test drill for shale which caused the 2 minor quakes was drilled to 2,800m. There would be nothing that you mentioned at anything like these levels so there is no reason why they couldn’t drill Hyde Park if they wanted to. Hell, there’s even pretty water features there they could get their supplies from! Both you and I know this will never happen don’t we?
Double standards anyone…
Nobody objected to the coal mines, nobody objected to the quarry at Borras, how is this any different?
This is potentially the second industrial revolution that we are talking about here.
^ No I don’t believe this is anything like the second Industrial Revolution, more like the second Dot Com Bubble. This ‘dash for gas’, ‘shale bubble’ whatever the hell you want to call it is likely to make a lot of money for a small amount of people for a reasonably short period of time. Also if there are any issues (the likes of which we have seen elsewhere) then who is going to pick up the pieces?, home insurance companies, local council’s, UK government, the drilling company or it’s investors …none of the above? If any of these wells do leak (as they have elsewhere) then it is going to be very difficult (perhaps even impossible) for any environmental damage to be undone. There is currently only one fracking rig in the UK and look what has happened to it, after causing 2 earthquakes it now looks as though that well may be leaking.
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