Yeah, fracking causes earthquakes, but $o what? Socio-economic impact wins...

[The Straight Story]

Fracking & Quakes: Not a Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

There’s not a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on due to shale gas fracking – official. Except, that is, in the global energy markets. But the ‘whatever-it-is-I’m-against-it’ Marxist (Groucho, that is) eco-activists, together with the constant alarmists in the media, persist in attempting to send tremors through public opinion over shale gas extraction.

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In the UK, at least, hard facts over fracking continue to undermine the trumped up charges levelled by the anti-frackers at every turn of the drill bit. And it is worth reviewing the arguments affecting the issue in the UK to see precisely why minor seismic events are failing to register as significant with the British Government when it comes to hydraulic fracturing.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) report, published in late October, on the two minor tremors near Blackpool on England’s north-west coast earlie

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Micro-quakes and acts of urban terrorism may make the headlines, but the real substance of the global shale gas phenomenon is its potentially enormous socio-economic impact. To borrow scale from Richter: while environmental concerns are at a magnitude of 1 to 2, the socio-economic benefits threaten a seismic 8 to 10.

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/11/10/fracking-quakes-not-a-whole-lotta-shakin%E2%80%99-goin%E2%80%99-on/

[pscot]

1. It's a small price to pay

for oil company profits.

[grntuscarora]

2. The author, Peter C. Glover

is, evidently, the genius behind the blog site "Global Warming Hysteria". http://www.globalwarminghysteria.com/

I will file his article where it belongs.

[DFW]

3. There was a documentary on fracking in the USA last wek on German TV

It showed a guy in Pennsylvania near a polluted site. He turned on the water tap in his kitchen,
help up a cigarette lighter to it and flicked it. A WHOOOSH of flame came out of the tap along
with the water.

In the words of Stan Lee: 'nuff said.

[redqueen]

4. deleted

(thought I'd found the video you mentioned)

[scarletwoman]

5. Would that have been "Gasland"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasland

[DFW]

6. The Germans might have used excerpts in their report

I couldn't tell you, as I didn't catch any attributions.