Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Monday, 30 May 2016
Info recap 30 may 2016 many links including scientific research papers
Fracking info links 30 may 2016
first hand testimony of what fracking companies do to communities. pump and dump.
Q. Why does fracking create vociferous local advocates against it? it is not just nimbyism.
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/human-canaries-in-coal-mine.html
first hand testimony of what fracking companies do to communities. pump and dump.
Q. Why does fracking create vociferous local advocates against it? it is not just nimbyism.
http://frackingvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/human-canaries-in-coal-mine.html
Phd listing (thx to jhh)
human and animal
health reports fracking/csg/ucg/csm/cbm coal seam gas all
PHD and science data world wide
BAMBERGER human and animal health
PHD and science data world wide
BAMBERGER human and animal health
Radon in Natural Gas from Marcellus Shale RESNIKOFF
radioactive waste RESNIKOFF
RADON RESNIKOFF
THEO COLBORN REPORT
QUEENSLAND TARA and surrounds Geralyn McCarron
radioactivity in Marcellus Shale RESNIKOFF
fracking the dirty truth
randy moyer interview
another epa hearing
here is a specific
process of the frack, explosive water pressure to shatter rock and release gas.
The last time they did it cuadrilla had to shut down due to causing earthquakes
near blackpool 5 years ago they had an accident that they tried to cover up.
The biggest problems are connected to the whole logistics involved in fracking.
Its a bit like placing an industrial factory (eg compressor station) in the
middle of a residential area creating some heavy duty chemical. The actual
technical process of creating the chemical may be relatively safe in a
controlled environment (although still risky) but if it is run by people who
crash trucks dumping toxic waste everywhere and dump waste into the local
resevoir. This will have impacts. Also imagine this factory in residential area
periodically releasing gas into the air or flaring huge flares during the night
due to high pressures. Or maybe where they store the gas gets fractured and
releases it everywhere like in california
methane gas leak in LA
methane gas leak in LA
porter ranch 15 miles north of LA
radiation in CSG
Then there is dealing
with the NORM radioactive wastewater / mud. This was dumped in the manchester
canal untreated for radiation. There are risks to air quality, noise nuisance,
property prices, earth quakes (particularly with wastewater injection wells),
water pollution through direct contamination, water pollution through indirect
contamination. Spraying waste water on roads, leaving it in evaporation ponds,
spraying it on agriculture farmland.
perforating systems in fracking
dr ingraffea facts on fracking
dr ingraffea myths about fracking
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Sunday, 14 February 2016
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Oil subsidies in the uk
Ok, I was having a fun argument with a friend the other day...
One topic was oil subsidies in the UK.
"No such thing in the UK they don't exist... Oil production and distribution is taxed at about 80 to 90 percent. No such thing as oil subsidies in the UK. It's left wing rubbish"
Is a tax rebate a subsidy?
Is tax payer paying for clean decommissioning a subsidy?
Is 5 million tax payer money on fracking PR a subsidy?
Is government funding pro academia and focus groups a subsidy?
In other parts of the world there may be real subsidised oil prices but what about the UK specifically.
Anyone got anything constructive to add / say to bolster the argument that oil / gas / coal in the UK gets subsidies?
I went home and did a bit of research.
http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/9957.pdf
See pg 69 / 70 for UK summary
Tax breaks for north sea oil
Decommissioning costs
5 million to promote fracking.
http://www.odi.org/publications/10058-production-subsidies-oil-gas-coal-fossil-fuels-g20-broken-promises
Maybe I should have used the words tax breaks and government funded exploration and research directly benefiting oil companies production.
World wide subsidies vs UK specific subsidies.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-government-pays-6bn-a-year-in-subsidies-to-fossil-fuel-industry-a6730946.html
"The Government claims it does not give any subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry. This is because it has a different, stricter definition of subsidy – which it limits to “government action that lowers the pre-tax price to consumers to below international-market levels”.
"...This is despite David Cameron telling a UN climate-change conference in September 2014: “We need to give business the certainty it needs to invest in low carbon. That means fighting against the economically and environmentally perverse fossil‑fuel subsidies.” "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/12/uk-breaks-pledge-to-become-only-g7-country-increase-fossil-fuel-subsidies
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+oil+production+subsidised
As for free markets they might be a nice idea if I ever saw one, although most seem to end up as monopolies.
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Is-The-Oil-Industry-Really-Subsidized.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/12/us-taxpayers-subsidising-worlds-biggest-fossil-fuel-companies
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
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