#Geog4B

What is Fracking? inconvenient-truth-for-the-anti-fracking-lobby/ inconvenient-truth-for-the-anti-fracking-lobby/

Cuadrilla resources.com/what- we-do/hydraulic- fracturing/ resources.com/what- we-do/hydraulic- fracturing/

UK Context

UK Regulation gas-and-hydraulic-fracturing-fracking/developing-shale-oil- and-gas-in-the-uk#evidence-on-safety-and-the-environment gas-and-hydraulic-fracturing-fracking/developing-shale-oil- and-gas-in-the-uk#evidence-on-safety-and-the-environment

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Health Concerns Breast Cancer UK – Chemicals used in the fracking process can leech into well water that rural communities depend on, and seep into underground aquifers and contaminate water supplies for people who live in far-off cities exposes people to endocrine disruptors and carcinogenic chemicals that are linked to breast cancer fracking/ fracking/

New York State Public Health Commissioner – Banned Fracking state-fracking-ban-two-years-public-health state-fracking-ban-two-years-public-health Serious health concerns after a 2 year report…. However, Texas has banned the banning of Fracking The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has signed a bill into law that prohibits cities and towns from banning a gas drilling practice known as hydraulic fracking, giving the state sole authority over oil and gas regulation texas-governor-stops-cities-and-towns-banning-hydraulic-gas-mining texas-governor-stops-cities-and-towns-banning-hydraulic-gas-mining

Toxicology and Pharmacology 2016 report Fracking does cause cancer (study based on mice) cancer-causing-new-study-confirms/ cancer-causing-new-study-confirms/

Public Health England report 2014 – No major concerns about Fracking However… report-is-the-go-to-report-for-many-here-are-selected- concerns/ report-is-the-go-to-report-for-many-here-are-selected- concerns/ The remit of the PHE report was extremely narrow and misses many of the issues that people are concerned about. Report admits that more research needs to be done

Places that do Fracking, hate it Denton (the home of fracking) banned it, but had that ban overturned by the Texas governor

It will add to climate change However, shale gas is far less damaging than coal so we are moving in the right direction

Groundwater will be contaminated Lord Smith, former Chair Environment Agency, has said “groundwater contamination is the biggest environmental risk in this activity”. University of Glasgow disagrees There may be other reasons for opposing the use of indigenous gas resources, but aquifer pollution due to fracking at great depths is not one of them danger-to-water-supplies #ixzz47DPVXoGs danger-to-water-supplies #ixzz47DPVXoGs

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They cause earthquakes USGS Fracking causes extremely small earthquakes, but they are almost always too small to be a safety concern. In addition to natural gas, fracking fluids and salt water trapped in the same formation as the gas are returned to the surface. These wastewaters are frequently disposed of by injection into deep wells. The injection of wastewater and salt water into the subsurface can cause earthquakes that are large enough to be felt and may cause damage. confirms-link-between-fracking-earthquakes-in-western- canada/article / confirms-link-between-fracking-earthquakes-in-western- canada/article / Proof of the link (2016)

Costs ayers-fracking-pollution-companies ayers-fracking-pollution-companies

House Prices /fracking-house-prices-defra-report.html /fracking-house-prices-defra-report.html

Water use and Waste disposal fracking-plans/ fracking-plans/

Road damage, congestion etc

Local concerns hell-live-next-shale-gas-well-texas-us hell-live-next-shale-gas-well-texas-us Main protest group

It will lower energy prices Mr Cameron declared in 2013: "It’s simple – gas and electric bills can go down when our home-grown energy supply goes up.“ Stern report disagrees cameron-fracking-lord-stern cameron-fracking-lord-stern /George-Osborne-get-fracking-or-condemn-Britain-to-higher- energy-bills.html /George-Osborne-get-fracking-or-condemn-Britain-to-higher- energy-bills.html But later admits that it won’t reduce bills (not same thing) Cuadrilla admitted that any impact on bills would be “basically insignificant”

It will create jobs “We have lost 14,500 jobs locally, unemployment is at around 17 per cent and we have 42 per cent child poverty in some areas. fylde-frack-bid #ixzz47DCQja92 fylde-frack-bid #ixzz47DCQja92 Fracking company Cuadrilla has since admitted that the 6 year fracking project proposed in Lancashire would lead to just 11 jobs at each of the two sites, including those induced by the extra economic activity. A separate study has found that a programme of home insulation would create 10,000 jobs by 2020 in the North West alone.

Latest Developments Thursday 28 April 2016A new Government survey of public attitudes on energy shows that support for fracking has hit an all-time low, while support for renewable energy has reached record highs (1).Only 19% of people support shale gas energy, with a significantly higher 31% of people opposing it outright, the highest level of opposition yet since the Government starting surveying public opinions on energy in /Fracking-major-setback-for-shale-gas-industry-as- Cuadrilla-plans-rejected.html /Fracking-major-setback-for-shale-gas-industry-as- Cuadrilla-plans-rejected.html

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