Barton Moss, Eccles, Manchester, UK. 22nd November, 2013. Contractors beefing up extra gate fencing security at the IGas Energy Drill sitesite at Barton Moss in Salford, near Manchester. IGas Energy plans to start drilling soon to explore for methane. A small number of Anti-fracking anti-shale gas group protesters have pitched tents and set up camp near the planned gas-drilling site in Salford. IGas has permission from Salford for exploratory drilling, and from Trafford council for coal-bed methane extraction at an adjoining site at Davyhulme.
"We are the operator and sole owner of the Petroleum and Exploration and Development Licence (PEDL) 193 which includes our site at Barton. In June 2010, our planning application to explore for and extract hydrocarbons at the Barton site in Irlam was approved by Salford City Council following a detailed planning process involved undertaking detailed consultation with the local community as well as satisfying the Council and planning officers that we are a safe and transparent operator and able to conduct our work in an environmentally respectful site is located immediately east of the M62 and north of Barton Moss Road, Salford. The site covers an area of acres – approximately the size of a football land to the north of the site (east of the motorway) comprises improved grassland; the land to the south and east of the site is arable farmland. Approximately 250m to the south lies the boundary of City Airport (Barton Aerodrome), with the A57 (Liverpool Road) and the Manchester Ship Canal beyond." Fracking is hydraulic fracturing, a new method of extracting gas and oil from rocks at a depth of 2,000 to 10,000 feet down into the shale. Deep wells are drilled straight down through the aquifer and drilling then curves horizontally below the surface into shale rock. Water with fracking fluid is then injected at enormous pressure into the shale, which breaks the rocks apart and releases the methane trapped within.
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