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Shale gas cowboys could ‘lose’ toxic water without checks, warns engineer

Shale gas firms could find the temptation to save millions by falsely under-reporting volumes of ’fracking’ flowback fluid too strong to resist without strong regulation, according to a Lancashire-based engineer familiar with the industry. To extract natural gas from shale rock a technique called hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is used. Millions of gallons of fluid comprising … Continue reading »

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  • With a ten-stage frack that would be 5m cubic feet per well per day. In other words, quite a bit. 2 hours ago
  • Heard a rumour that Cuadrilla's pre-earthquake flowrate at Preese Hall was equivalent to 500,000 cubic feet of gas per frack stage per day 2 hours ago
  • RT @InsideDECC: We welcome today's IoD shale gas report sponsored by Cuadrilla. We need this kind of hopelessly hyperbolic tripe to convinc… 6 hours ago
  • Energy Select Committee's Green Deal 'watching brief' out tomorrow. Not a glowing report. "Granny", "suck" and "eggs" spring to mind. 19 hours ago
  • The key word here is 'mis-sold'... Telegraph: SSE pays out to mis-sold customers who lost no cash soa.li/Cj3imeO 20 hours ago
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