Fracking hell - earthquakes in Lancashire

[PorkPie]

BBC News - Fracking tests near Blackpool 'likely cause' of tremors

Man made earthquakes - aren't we doing well?

[malvolio]

BBC News - Fracking tests near Blackpool 'likely cause' of tremors

Man made earthquakes - aren't we doing well?

So well, we need a machine to detect them happening...

I wonder how many of the objectors to fracking realise that (a) it's a harmless, proven technique and (b) it will release around four times as much energy as we've pulled from the North Sea at a tenth of the cost.

[Arturo Bassick]

So well, we need a machine to detect them happening...

I wonder how many of the objectors to fracking realise that (a) it's a harmless, proven technique and (b) it will release around four times as much energy as we've pulled from the North Sea at a tenth of the cost.

So harmless that it causes minor earth quakes! Considering it was a small test drilling site. Can we assume that the effects will increase in magnitude with an increase in the scale of drilling?
I also understand it affects ground table water in sucgh a way that you can ignite it.





** Not saying that Blackpool being flattened by an earthquake is a bad thing.

[Mich the Tester]

Churchill, I told you to stop stamping your feet when you walk!

[tractor]

So harmless that it causes minor earth quakes! Considering it was a small test drilling site. Can we assume that the effects will increase in magnitude with an increase in the scale of drilling?
I also understand it affects ground table water in sucgh a way that you can ignite it.



** Not saying that Blackpool being flattened by an earthquake is a bad thing.

That's just a benefit really, if your gas runs out, you can cook in the sink, bath or bog.

[Churchill]

Churchill, I told you to stop stamping your feet when you walk!

What was that again oh fleet-of-foot and lardy-of-arse?

[wim121]

Man made earthquakes - aren't we doing well?

So harmless that it causes minor earth quakes!

Natural earthquakes have always affected that area of lancashire, as well as other parts of the country. The UK surprisingly has more tornadoes p/sqm than the US, constant tremors and in some areas like anglesey, you can see the rock formations of faults and plates colliding resulting in many different types of rock.

The thing is, since we dont have a large land mass, tornadoes dont have much time to build up in to super twisters. Quakes although very common, are felt less than on fault lines in other places globally.

So far, Ive felt/been awoken by two quakes this year. Only a couple of points on the richter scale, but I tend to sense them more than others I know.

[Fred Bloggs]

Stuff it, we need that gas out of the ground. Shale gas has totally transformed the energy industry in the USA.

[rsingh]

Stuff it, we need that gas out of the ground. Shale gas has totally transformed the energy industry in the USA.

True - which is why we'll end up with a load of windmills instead.

[TimberWolf]

True - which is why we'll end up with a load of windmills instead.

The energy to make windmills doesn't come out of thin air you know.