tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post3451070022300797866..comments2024-01-09T00:39:13.955+00:00Comments on Oh what NOW!: Frakking greatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-52138411662768792772011-09-23T10:01:00.449+01:002011-09-23T10:01:00.449+01:00@ JP ..
I think the correct term is "Fraggin...@ JP ..<br /><br />I think the correct term is "Fragging" .. using a high explosive anti-personnel grenade ..<br /><br />And it sounds like a bloody good idea, Joe .. ;)Captain Haddocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-33251696745007047722011-09-22T23:00:16.857+01:002011-09-22T23:00:16.857+01:00A&TA: "Where gas fracking has been done, ...A&TA: "Where gas fracking has been done, there are reports of the water table being polluted."<br /><br />I remember a film perporting to show that fracking had caused methane to flow into the aquifer and out through the domestic tap leading to 'flamable water'.<br /><br />One question the guy conducting the presentation didn't ask was 'Did you have gas in your water before the fracking process started?"<br /><br />Reply, "Oh yes".<br /><br /><br />Looking at any exposed rock face where over the years many strata are pulverised and fractured, I can't see that this process of fracturing would do much more 'damage' than nature already does herself. Further, this process doesn't seem to actually remove much material from the bore.<br /><br />Therefor I can't see any threat from subsidence, not much from earthquakes, and none to the strata above from the minimal disturbance of the gas bearing strata below.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-31549239054122761822011-09-22T22:03:28.478+01:002011-09-22T22:03:28.478+01:00A+T Airman, click on the link below, and your worr...A+T Airman, click on the link below, and your worries on water table problems should be put to rest.<br /><br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvnnBcxhzNA&feature=player_embedded#!DavePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04744071875954583576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-68574846978017362742011-09-22T21:24:05.956+01:002011-09-22T21:24:05.956+01:00Please believe me when I say I am not a tree-hugge...Please believe me when I say I am not a tree-hugger, but there could be a problem. Where gas fracking has been done, there are reports of the water table being polluted. I would like to see a full debate on the possible risk of this happening. Those who get their water from the mains will almost certainly be unaffected but what of those who live in an area NOT served by mains and have to rely on boreholes?Ancient + Tattered Airmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-87095327914913149312011-09-22T19:32:40.060+01:002011-09-22T19:32:40.060+01:00the second don't generate at night or when it&...<i>the second don't generate at night or when it's cloudy...</i><br /><br />...unless you're Spanish, that is:<br /><br />http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/465409/spanish_nighttime_solar_energy_fraud_unlikely_in_uk.html<br /><br />(quoted by RMcGeddon in reply to Apogee at a post by Subrosa - but then you knew that already)<br /><br />Since gas is the fuel of choice for most densely-populated urban areas, whatever is decided now, I suspect we'll see some desperate political manoeuvring and backtracking once supplies start to run seriously low; <i>vox populi, vox dei</i>.Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-48025286737629987002011-09-22T19:23:21.081+01:002011-09-22T19:23:21.081+01:00I often wish Politicians could be "fracked&qu...I often wish Politicians could be "fracked" to release all their hot-air in a single event.Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-15060978441241260032011-09-22T18:35:56.062+01:002011-09-22T18:35:56.062+01:00Anon.
Those of the green persuasion will do anyth...Anon.<br /><br />Those of the green persuasion will do anything to stop gas and oil. All they can think of is useless windmills and solar panels. The first don't generate when we have a cold spell. the second don't generate at night or when it's cloudy.The Filthy Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584236558282159183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508346572086151757.post-73778907431622347912011-09-22T17:50:37.056+01:002011-09-22T17:50:37.056+01:00"Frackinbg" or fracturing the rock.
Is ..."Frackinbg" or fracturing the rock.<br /><br />Is what used to happen when the NCB (National Coal Board) used to, possibly somewhere still do, extract coal from one of their mines. Only in this case they would take a whole seam out of the ground and let the upper strata fracture as it fell into the void. (I guess it is not exactly the same) <br /><br />We used to hear about investigations into subsidence, but there was never to my knowledge any whinging about earthquakes in South Wales<br /><br />The point is I cannot believe fracking could produce earth quakes where extracting whole seams of coal didn't seem to.<br /><br />Environmentalists == IgnoramusesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com