Reprieve for Fracking Sites Due to be Concreted Over Despite Energy Crisis
Fracking sites were granted a stay of execution last night as ministers considered using them for further research rather than concrete them up forever. The Sun has the story.
Last night two sites in Lancashire were given extra time to close down after a backlash from MPs and campaigners amid soaring energy prices.
They were ordered to be concreted over within weeks, but now have until June to do so.
Insiders said the site could be used for further research on fracking rather than disappearing forever.
The Lancashire wells have not been used since 2019 after test drilling was suspended due to concerns about earthquakes.
But thanks to spiralling fuel costs forcing bills to soar and the West cutting off Russia’s supplies, the PM is under fresh pressure to look again at whether fracking could help drive up UK energy reserves.
However, at this point No. 10 is still insisting “our position on fracking hasn’t changed”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ministers are “at war” over a reprieve for U.K. fracking sites, according to MailOnline. Meanwhile, ex-Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick has warned that the ban on Russian oil will mean £1,200 being added to the average household energy bill.
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And my position on voting against the Green-CONs on 5 May hasn’t changed either.
Do you have an alternative in mind? As this point it’s fringe, independent, or “none of the above” for me, as all of the parties who currently have at least one MP infesting Westminster are essentially indistinguishable in policy.
You’re right. All pursuing the authoritarian insanity that has left us without security of energy supplies and punished us with lockdowns and masks.
Just don’t vote.
Anyone but Johnson and Starmer seems about right!
Vote Loony.
Mine neither.
Will we ever realise that Fracking is a way to free ourselves from this crisis? Also we know anti fracking groups have funds from Russia…I wonder why!?
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“Also we know anti fracking groups have funds from Russia…I wonder why!?”
It’s not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
Come on, folks, this 77th Brigade stuff is just conspiracy nutter nonsense.
But…. that’s something someone from the 77th would say, isn’t it??!!
“Government postpones burning all of our bandages, but still declines to apply one to the spurting arterial wound”.
If we won’t frack-for-victory now, after that BAFTA-worthy piece of crisis acting from Zelenskyy, then I suspect we never will.
Paint the fracking sites blue and yellow to signal their virtue. Frack for Ukraine!
Metaphorically, yes. We’re currently at Peak Jingoism, and yet Premiere Johnson’s husband still hasn’t seized that opportunity to reverse-ferret to saner policies.
Instead, we’re throwing the borders wide open to yet another couple of hundred thousand people with no homes to put them in, and no plan to heat, feed and care for them.
At its most basic terms, we’re “adopting” more pet humans on terms that would cause any animal shelter to refuse to hand them over.
To be fair to the refugees, they don’t want to be here any more than we want them here.
The sooner this clusterf*ck is over the better for everyone and providing arms to Ukraine isn’t helping as it’s only delaying the inevitable and causing more death and suffering.
Oh, I don’t blame the women and children among this specific tranche, I’m just highlighting the reality.
We have 3.8 million UK citizens on social housing waiting lists, add hundreds of thousand in net immigration each year that we’ll admit to, plus the hundreds of thousands that we pretend we can’t see, and now we’re adding 200,000 more in one go.
It’s like we’ve adopted Dishy Davos Rishi’s view that once you’ve borrowed or printed a trillion currencies, what’s a few hundred billion more?
But people aren’t like fiat currency; you can’t hide them by shuffling columns in spreadsheets, or borrow housing now and pay it back later.
Eventually we’ll physically run out of hotel rooms (it’s clear that we’ve long since run out of homes) and Paris and Californian scale tent-cities will spring up. I wonder if that will be the tipping point, or if, like them, we’ll just studiously ignore the fetid squalor and keep Tweeting about #WelcomingFugees
I agree entirely with your sentiment on immigration in general, but the Ukrainians fleeing the country just now are refugees, not immigrants.
I daresay there are international funds available to compensate countries who agree to take them.
And unlike our RIB travelling, illegal beachcombers, these are likely to be a reasonable mix of sexes, including children who will be desperate to return to their homes.
“providing arms to Ukraine isn’t helping as it’s only delaying the inevitable and causing more death and suffering.”
Surely that is he whole idea?
They seem to be building the thrown-up, faulty, close packed houses all over the green belt where I live!
The Builders will be billionaires shortly!
Looks like all those “donations” that helped destroy sensible planning paid of!
One question you might ask yourself.
If the birth rate of the UK is falling (sustenance level is 2.1 children per couple, it’s around 1.8 children per couple right now) why is there a housing crisis?
Sound like a plan…
“Stop our use of Russian gas! Frack for Freedom, Frack for Ukraine!”
Has a nice ring to it! I can feel a meme coming on…
Don’t say that!
Our government will rollout a vaccination for it…….
Starting this with the babes in arms!
Can’t wait for the AGW activists to start glueing themselves down around the fracking sites. Just like man made global warming there’s a lot of nonsensical opinions on fracking; it’s really become a matter of faith rather than science. I think there are three basic issues: 1) fracking produces hydrocarbons which would normally be left in the ground and thereby adds to AGW; 2) fracking pollutes ground water; 3) fracking causes earth tremors. Of these my personal opinion is that only earth tremors is an issue – and if they can get themselves away from their wine and cheese parties this could potentially be resolved by government legislature (for example community participation in the profits).
The ‘earthquake’ nonsense is just that, nonsense. I live about a mile away from the Dartford Crossing. When the bridge, which is a massive structure, was being built we felt nothing despite considerable seismic activity. The limit in Lancashire was set at 0.5 on the Richter scale which is only detectable with the most sophisticated equipment available. There was a seismic event of around 2.6, detectable were someone paying attention, for a matter of 2 or 3 seconds amongst a handful of houses. No structural damage, perhaps some plates rattling. The 0.5 level was set as a punitive standard to provide some level of ‘scientific’ credibility for shutting down operations. But let’s draw a little comparison. Despite objections from a minority of us opposed to vaccinations/lockdowns/masks etc. our government punished the entire country by imposing, and in many cased mandating them under threat of fines and prison time. Fracking is being objected to by a minority of local residents and fanatic SJW’s, but in a time of genuine national emergency when the whole country will be punished with spiralling inflation and dangerous increases in energy prices the government will take no positive steps to address the issue despite support from… Read more »
In the UK in the last 30 days , there have been 6 seismic events over 2.0 Richter.
Anyone notice? – crickets!
If all other industrial / agricultural / transport activities were held to the same standard as Shale Gas, even the bus service would have to stop.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/uk-past30days.htm
Another painful collision between warm, fuzzy dogma and hard, cold reality.
Yes.
Those without proper jobs advocating the dogma are keeping warm on fat public sector salaries – those facing the reality are left out in the cold to freeze!
I like the picture, is it a contrivance? Cow farts and fracking… we’re doomed Mr Mainwaring, doomed i tell you! I collect all of my global warming/anthropomorphic climate change alternative narrative blah blah from ‘Whats up with that.com’ you should too…
The US boomed when Trump encouraged fracking.
The US and UK are now at war with oil prices sky rocketing and despite CO2 rising, global temperatures are currently falling. The world has gone mad.
No – there has been an Election Coup in the US and saddo Biden is the consequence.
Johnson dances to the CIA’s tune!
Does it occur to anyone that Biden is exactly who they want “in charge”? His total senility serves their manipulative purposes very well.
(Soros and H. Clinton – both tub-thumpers for suicidal war with Russia!)
“It’s you they are after, I was just in the way” ( Donald Trump)
Heating oil 2 weeks ago: 65p /litre. Today £1.28.
Half the oil under the North Sea is still there.
It’s a no brainer, unless of course like Boris and the Reset Gang, your aim is destroy the wealth of the middle and working class, make us ‘poor but happy’, and feather the nests of the socialist global elite.
Johnson’s actions and decisions then become crystal clear.
Yep, a No-Brainer: just like Bozo!
Johnson – put in place to “take down” the UK!
There ought to have been thousands of pro-fracking supporters up there demonstrating and blocking the entry to concrete mixers.
Were there something organised I would have been willing to travel up there from Kent for at least a day to lend support.
I used to be against fracking for the adverse health problems from all the chemicals they use which leaches into the water supply and atmosphere. I was never too bothered about the minor tremors they caused. However, energy security is vitally important and as long as safety issues are addressed then perhaps it is time to start fracking again. Here is a document I had back in 2013 when I was researching fracking and after attending a seminar by the late great Ian R Crane a retired oil industry executive with years of experience in the problems caused by fracking. Ten fracking facts. 1. The entire idea of shale fracking is to fracture the rock and release trapped gas or oil, so to argue that this is completely safe and cannot or doesn’t cause earthquakes is clearly disingenuous. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/fracking-practices-blame-ohio-earthquakes-8C11073601 2. Because of the increase in Fracking natural gas supply has now outpaced demand in the US and they are in fact running out of storage options. http://wamc.org/post/gas-storage-adds-fracking-controversy-upstate 3. Whilst we may well desperately need to exploit fuel and economic possibilities in the UK – we shouldn’t do so at the risk of damaging our land and health – we should… Read more »
OK that’s the standard Watermelon Green peace list of made up gibberish, 99% of which has been thoroughly debunked multiple times.
Here’s just one site giving the actual facts rather than the Priness Nut Nut cribsheet faux facts:
https://journal.rajeshtaylor.com/the-case-for-fracking-uk-for-shale-oil-rather-than-importing-natural-gas-across-europe
Condescending nonsense.
Your source is a photographer, my source was an oil industry executive.
Correct facts, your sources quoted above are the standard watermelon mouthpieces such as frack off & Huff post.
Try dealing with reality for a change:
https://www.netzerowatch.com/britain-needs-shale-gas-now-for-consumers-and-for-national-security/
The reality is that there is a health safety issue and if they can be addressed then I am not opposed to fracking.
Those health issues need to be examined by an “independent” panel of experts who don’t have financial interests particularly in the oil industry like the one’s you link to.
They have been examined by many independent panels including the notoriously ferocious left wing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US.
The information you provided was not that provided by “the late great Ian R Crane” who is a fringe commentator on a variety of subjects including 5G, Creating Economic Growth & Eradicating Poverty, Health Mastery and cancer, amongst many other things.
His website is enlightening, but not too much as his Youtube videos are available at considerable cost.
Your post is mostly nonsense. 1) An NBC News report from 2013 – have you learned nothing about the MSM? 2) A WAMC Radio report from 2013 – have you learned nothing about the MSM? 3) Who has said “the electricity they [renewables] produce is not compatible with the national grid.”? Utter rubbish. The problem is intermittency of supply – when the win’d doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. For those periods there must be 100% back up in the form of nuclear, gas, coal or hydro. In order to achieve that and maintain energy security that means for every wind farm built an equivalent power station must be built thereby duplicating effort. 4) LA (Los Angelis) Progressives – or Dick & Sharon (see the about page). “Both have been progressive anti-racist anti-oppression activists for more than three decades using the LA Progressive, Hollywood Progressive, and the Left Coast Forum specifically to bring an intentional focus on intersectionality, non-binary gender issues as well as the panoply of issues traditionally viewed as being within the progressive wheelhouse such as racism, sexism, ageism, anti-Semitism, ableism and others.” Says it all really. However, the article is written by John MacMurray, a retired… Read more »
As I said as long as the health issues are independently assessed and given the green light I would consider fracking in the UK to be viable for our future energy needs.
But as I am a sceptic I would have to satisfy myself it is all above board.
They also told us vaccines were safe.
The health aspect of it is not in question or our government would have stopped it on that basis alone.
They didn’t, they stopped it because of the ridiculous concept of earth tremors.
“As I said as long as the health issues are independently assessed and given the green light I would consider fracking in the UK to be viable for our future energy needs.”
Why, if that were true, do you trot out the garbage above – and as I have read 99.99%+ not true, especially about “chemicals” and water tables…
The egregious attempt to use “earthquakes” is a mendacious scandal – come to where we live and I will expose you to more “tremors” from traffic than have ever been recorded from fracking.
Instead of reading the “99.99%+” of articles by oil and gas companies try reading others which highlight all the chemicals and health hazards.
That is why an “independent” enquiry is needed.
As I said in my original post ……
“I was never too bothered about the minor tremors they caused.”
2008- Oil up to $149, Petrol £1.19/l, Diesel £1.33/l
2022 – Oil around $125, Petrol £1.58/l, Diesel £1.65/l
The build back better green agenda clowns absolutely do not want and will not allow cheap energy prices ever again imo.
Energy prices are soaring, inflation is at a ridiculous level, fuel prices are at a record high (can you believe that back in 2015 you could find petrol at 99p?). Meanwhile, they are doing all they can to cut off fuel supplies, refusing to exploit local supplies. And they keep telling us that the way out of this, towards lower energy prices, is investing in more renewables, despite the obvious issue that the more the UK invested in renewables, the higher energy costs got.
The Green New Deal, the Global Reset, the Build Back Better, the New World Order, they are all going ahead as planned. We will stop driving and owning cars. We will be stuck at home, barely able to warm ourselves. We will eat bugs. And our freedom and wellbeing is a sacrifice the elites are willing to make.
Yes – our Government is now “at war” with the British people….not Russia.
The”Take Down of the West Reset” does not want to allow for energy self sufficiency – they want the populations the West to suffer deprivation – levelled down to the third world average! Punishment for being “Europeans”? There is so obviously a strong element of vindictive spite and punishment in the Manic Globalist Climate Agenda. Meanwhile China’s coal fired power stations steam ahead. The idea of destroying our energy supply as ‘punishment’ for a country we are not at war with and where we have no bilateral issues between us all because of a dispute and intervention that does not directly involve us, but which Russia judges and has clearly stated is for issues which directly affects its security – even its long term survival- an intervention which does not affect the ‘status quo ante’ Balance of Power in Europe in any way to our disadvantage is uniquely curious to say the least. By contrast declaring war on Hitler’ s Germany was a very quiete affair – done more in sorrow than anger . Anyone smell a cellar full of rats? Looks like we will be under a “New War Footing Emergency” when Johnson decides the New wave of economic… Read more »
Next it will be time for the “New Killer Virus” to be launched so that Gates and his WHO can play his part again.( By then Johnson will have got his current Bills through curtailing our Human Rights and freedoms – including the current “freedom” of ‘bodily integrity’ not to be vaxxed!)
(Digital currency and ID and CCP level surveillance… all in the pipeline).
Romania was told that it is not allowed to exploit their own gas reserves and sell cheaper energy to what is one of the poorest countries in the EU. They were told that despite the way below EU average income they must sell energy internally at average EU prices. That is how hard they are working to maintain the illusion that there is no way for our lives to be better, and that is how little they care about us. Because, you see, knowing that life can indeed be better is what brought the Soviet Union down and it is what made communism very unpopular during the second half of the 20th century. Because try as they might, communists could not convince people that communism is so much better than capitalism when you have millions of people dying of starvation under communism, eating their children to stay alive, while people living in capitalist America were having the absolute time of their lives. This is why western news was not allowed into the Soviet Union. But the people knew, sentiments turned, and it all came crashing down eventually. The globalists are trying to prevent this from happening again. You can’t point… Read more »
The”Take Down of the West Reset” does not want to allow for energy self sufficiency – they want the populations the West to suffer deprivation – levelled down to the third world average! Punishment for being “Europeans”? There is so obviously a strong element of vindictive spite and punishment in the Manic Globalist Climate Agenda and the blatant absurdity of a ‘Zero Carbon’ target for a country which now produces just 1 % of the Earth’s emissions. Meanwhile China’s coal fired power stations steam ahead. The ridiculous idea of destroying our energy supply and security as ‘punishment’ for a country we are not at war with and where we have no bilateral issues between us all because of a dispute and intervention that does not directly involve us, but which Russia judges and has clearly stated is for issues which directly affects its security – even its long term survival- an intervention which does not affect the ‘status quo ante’ Balance of Power in Europe in any way to our disadvantage is uniquely curious to say the least. By contrast declaring war on Hitler’ s Germany was a very quiet affair – done on a quiet Sunday morning, more in… Read more »
And the ‘fracked’ gas will go the same way as Northsea oil and gas, exported for profit.
Again, vanishingly unlikely: “Debunking “The Price Case” Against FrackingOne argument made against shale gas is even if Britain did start to develop a domestic industry, it would make little difference to the global price. It’s an argument that goes against the same concerns about food miles – local production for local consumption. Given the recent experience of forced restrictions on shipping and imports, it shows how important the UK government wants to provide food and energy security for its citizens. Transport costs of natural gas are high (but lower than wind and solar). There is a significant cost associated with production of liquefied natural gas. The result is drilling for gas leads to significantly cheaper prices near the place of production, rising the further one goes from the wellhead. At the moment of writing, the Henry Hub price (US reference) is $5.84 per million British thermal units (MMBtu); the UK price is $26 per MMBtu [2] . In simpler terms, if gas were cheaply transportable, then the US price would not be so divergent from that in the UK or the rest of Europe. The same factors apply when considering domestic UK production: the costs of exporting mean that domestic prices would be… Read more »
It would be far better for the population if we could concrete over Parliament.
It’s not as if the pols weren’t warned years ago: “The chairman of Britain’s biggest private company has accused the government of using “slippery back door manoeuvres” to kill off fracking in the UK. Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire founder of Ineos, said the government is sticking to a plan which is “unworkable, unhelpful and playing politics with the country’s future”. Read more: Ineos hails ‘game changing’ new plant as it invests €3bn in Belgium Ratcliffe hit out at a system which forces fracking to halt the moment minor seismic activity is detected around the site, saying it would prevent the UK from following the US’s booming shale market. Britain’s limit of 0.5 points on the Richter scale is over 3,000 times lower than the 4.0 level in the US where just one well is producing more gas than the entire British North Sea. “The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy seems to lack a basic understanding of the Richter Scale. It is a logarithmic scale. The limit within the United States is typically set at 4.0 – a level that the US Environmental Protection Agency feels is safe and will not lead to any damage to land, property or… Read more »
so, in other words the govt are confirming the conflict in Ukraine is planned for eclipse by the next manufactured chaos crisis in about June ?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/quentin-letts-beep-beep-kwasi-kwarteng-checks-his-wing-mirror-in-tricky-energy-reverse-jhgk270xs
A very interesting thread this. Make of it what you will…
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https://twitter.com/LezLuthor/status/1500175827161554946?s=09
The fact that spiteful, wanton vandalism such as concreting the wells to prevent any further use is even being contemplated tells you all you need to know about the moral bankruptcy of the governing class.