The Lowry Salford Quays, Manchester protestors at Fracking North Debate on Hydraulic Fracturing for Gas. North West England is one of the biggest & potentially the most valuable fuel sources ever discovered? There estimated to be about 1,300tn cubic feet of shale gas, a tenth of which is the equivalent of 51 years’ supply. The process of extraction has prompted vigorous debate with claims that fracking will bring "significant negative effects", such as groundwater contamination, radioactive waste, methane leakage, and air pollution. © Mar Photographics/Alamy Live News. Credit: Mar Photogra
Fracking was banned temporarily in 2011 after two earthquakes of and in magnitude were recorded in Blackpool. Despite evidence that it can cause earthquakes; a new Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) undertaken by consultancy AMEC and commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) found that 'fracking' – the hydraulic fracturing method of extracting gas from shale rock – should continue. The assessment claims that new fracking activity could deliver up to 25 per cent of the UK's current gas demand in the 2020s while supporting between 16,000 and 32,000 additional jobs. Environmental activists, however, have slammed the report claiming that fracking will bring with it "significant negative effects" such as groundwater contamination, radioactive waste, severe methane leakage, air pollution and climate change. The North of England has been at the centre of much controversy when it comes to fracking. Conservative peer, Lord Howell has repeated his call for fracking to take place in the ‘desolate North East’ and not in ‘tory areas’. Beneath North West England is one of the biggest and potentially the most valuable fuel sources ever discovered. Latest estimates suggest there are approximately 1,300tn cubic feet of shale gas, a tenth of which is the equivalent of 51 years’ supply. However, rather than a discovery worthy of much celebration, the controversial process of extraction via fracking has prompted vigorous and contentious debate. At Barton Moss, a site of test drilling in Salford, Manchester anti fracking campaigners have set up camp in protest to the operation and are vociferous in their opposition.
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