Shadow energy minister Barry Gardiner told the Labour party conference this week that his party would outlaw fracking as the party was backing clean technologies.
http://www.garstangcourier.co.uk/news/lancashire-chiefs-continue-to-back-fracking-plans-1-8151394
One of the world’s most powerful energy conglomerates is on a “collision course” with the Scottish government over fracking, The Times Scotland says.
Almost three years ago Scotland was locked in one of the most bitter industrial stand-offs for a generation which left the livelihoods of thousands of workers hanging in the balance.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/scott-macnab-time-to-look-at-the-facts-on-fracking-1-4241934
Compared to the state’s overall water usage, the amount of water fracking uses is a drop in the bucket. It amounts to about 1 to 2 percent of all water used statewide, but over time that amount can add up. In some counties with higher concentrations of gas wells, fracking can account for 30 or 40 percent of all water used, chemistry professor Kevin Schug said.
First US shale gas arrives in the UK. The Ineos Insight gas carrier arrives at Grangemouth with the first shipment in a ‘virtual pipeline’. (subscription required)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14767891.No_grand_fracking_finale_on_billionaire_s_big_day/
Whatever proprietary interest companies might have in keeping their fracking formulas from competitors is heavily outweighed by the public interest in disclosure. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginia. Sep 27 2016
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/article_9367af26-1002-59db-85db-e5f8fc7e2425.html
The arrival of a giant tanker in the Firth of Forth in Scotland on Tuesday will signal the opening of a “virtual pipeline” transporting vast amounts of gas from U.S. fracking wells. The Independent, United Kingdom. Sep 27 2016
Fracking is subject to a moratorium imposed by the devolved government in Holyrood. But the Grangemouth plant will receive 27,500 cubic metres of ethane extracted from beneath western Pennsylvania in the US, where shale gas production has boomed.
Whatever proprietary interest companies might have in keeping their fracking formulas from competitors is heavily outweighed by the public interest in disclosure.
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/article_9367af26-1002-59db-85db-e5f8fc7e2425.html
Fracking involves gas being extracted from shale rock. Opponents say allowing it would make the UK dependent on fossil fuels when the priority should be clean energy.