Fracking and radon gas quick literature search… and summary.
Good practice would be to do a baseline radon EIA
environmental impact assessment and then continue with assessments every month
to 6 months.
Radon is produced when fracking. Is this a cost worth paying by the people
living near it? As a nation should we
care enough to stop and think about consequences?
Radiation accumulates in particular areas of
production. Whether it is the pipes
used in the vertical drilling or the sludge pits or the containers used to hold
the waste NORM sludge.
Dealing with the pipes and waste products safely is essential
and in America has been ignored. I am
trying to find the video about the scrap metal yards in America that had to
install gieger counters to refuse taking old drilling pipes that were highly
radioactive.
With installing pro fracker PR spin doctor at the head of
the EA what hope is there that Britain would be any different. Looking at the shocking history of fracking
in America all the ecological questions and local issues were shut down at a higher
level by industry influenced politicians.
This culture of silence and corruption is starting to unravel.
A related problem is abandoned disowned wells with no one
looking after them
Just because other sources of energy production are worse
does not validate fracking.
Take for example the south downs near where I live, I wouldn’t want a nuclear plant up there, a
coal mine up there or a fracking site up there. Using one bad thing to justify another bad
thing is not a valid argument. Im not
sure I would want the current generation of wind turbines up there but I would
prefer that to fracking. Offshore for
it all imho. And work on wave capture
and localised hydrogen production with the excess energy.
See this report from the American association of radon
scientists and technologists.
http://www.ukradon.org/cms/assets/gfx/content/resource_3265csf4334c131c.pdf
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