Help stop Fracking companies drilling under your house! Dear FRIENDS. If you havent read this yet - you NEED to read it and PLEASE DO IT TOO. NOT ACTING will mean that you are passively consenting to fracking going ahead - which has already proven to be destructive to life, land, crop growth and water. An IMPORTANT new bill is currently being put out for PUBLIC NEGOTIATION before its passed (about the future for FRACKING). Its not yet been widely publicised. This is YOUR CHANCE to have a say. PLEASE ACT/VOTE NOW (BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!) #citizenspace: Please copy and paste the following, then fill it out. https://t.co/XiCYN8YBrl. The outcome of this bill will greatly affect there being drinking water in the UK in the future. Its HIGHLY IMPORTANT that you complete this survey. ....Please read on for future information about cheaper energy resources in the future, as well as finding some suitable quick answers to the consultation. When you click on the link above, then click: complete survey. Have fun filling it out! :-) Please also invite as many as your facebook friends as poss to this event, or send them the bill to complete. Feel free to copy and paste/edit from possible answers below for speed. It should take you no more than 3-10 mins. to complete. (A great investment/use of time for something that potentially greatly affects your future health/well being). Poss answers to survey: Question 4. Should the Government legislate to provide underground access to gas, oil and geothermal developers below 300 meters? short answer: NO and state: The Government should NOT ALLOW ACCESS to gas or oil 300 metres under the ground on any part inland UK. Any form of drilling should be BANNED ALTOGETHER, as it has in so many other countries - for hydraulic fracturing of any kind, which goes deeper than 300 metres. The GVT should legislate that NO drilling is allowed beyond 300 metres. You could add: That you dont oppose drilling per se; but you DO object to the action of hydraulic fracturing - which involves drilling approx 1 mile (1.609344 kilometres) down. (Drilling for GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS, however, involves, which provides SUSTAINABLE ENERGY requires drilling no more than 120 metres below ground level, or in some instances only 2 metres below ground level. The heat is then used in a sustainable way for as long as the pump lasts, moving heat from under the earth to heat homes/businesses/etc. ) There is more background info at the bottom of this post if you want more info before you respond). Question 5. If you do not believe the Government should legislate for underground access, do you have a preferred alternative solution? Yes There is sufficient energy to be found elsewhere in the following: (Gas will become a thing of the past.) Alternative solutions being: GEOTHERMAL heat pumps. They are sustainable and are used alone for the (gas) heating of Norway, and please note, drilling for them DOES NOT go beyond 120m deep. (It only goes 2 metres deep (max) for forked underground piping that goes horizontal beneath the earth where there is a larger ground space.) A farm in the North West of England uses ONE geothermal heat pump alone for all their heating and hot water supplies. They act like a fridge, but in reverse, the fork going into the ground and staying there. SOLAR: Additionally, if even half the roofs in the UK has solar panels - we would be so much closer to being reliant on green/renewable energy and not former forms of energy which causes damage or problems to collect. PLEASE BEAR IN MIND SOLAR PANELS ONLY NEED LIGHT to create electricity - not just sun - they work ALL YEAR ROUND. Also PHOTOVOLTAIC GLASS is a great alternative, (a solar strip which is inside glass) that acts in the same way as solar panels, collecting electricity, at the same time as bringing sunlight/daylight into your home. Thirdly, WIND energy. Fourthly, WATER energy, (like in the olden days), and TIDAL BARRAGING. Drilling further than 150 metres for energy/shale gas in the UK should not be charged, but COMPLETELY banned. This is the only safe option for the future health, well being and drinking water of the U.K. 6. Should a payment and notification for access be administered through the voluntary scheme proposed by industry? No Fracking Way (or YES - see below....) No access should be given ANYWHERE in the UK to ANY company wanting to BRIBE the goverment to allow access under ANY circumstances. The only access that should be allowed for any commercial drilling thats for the SUSTAINABLE industry of GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS which, for industrial purposes only need to be be drilled 120 metres, mostly less than this above. Any proposed drilling beyond this should be completely BANNED in the entire of the United Kingdom, including Scotland and Wales. (Ireland have already banned it for two years until more research is done). Even so, with drilling for geothermal heat pumps, drilling should be highly legislated/tested/monitored (unlike the drilling that was formerly allowed and encouraged for hydraulic fracturing by central government) and a time gap also legislated - e.g a one month wait between each short section of 20 metres of drilling (to test for contamination and allow time for the any potential contamination to occur and tests to be taken. A payment/bribe to Governments should NOT be allowed, such as those previously given to councils with the promise of a profit share - bribe). For this question, if you prefer to put yes, please be careful to state that if any legislation is passed for drilling AT ALL in the UK, it should be legislated that this is ONLY for Geothermal heat pumps. It could be possible that there could be a tax on energy supplied commercially from Geothermal heat sources. Either, way, it would be useful to legislate what type of drilling is being done on any site in the UK. For example, the company IGas recently denied that they were drilling for shale gas on the Barton Moss site, even though they transported drill bits that were over 1 mile long onto their drilling site (the type used for drilling holes to extract shale gas. The hydraulic fracturing industry has already proven itself to be completely corrupt. Therefore no form of legislation or payment from any company doing any drilling (e.g. drilling that could take place that goes only 120 metres for industrial geothermal heat pumps) COULD result in further corruption from the naughty fracking companies IGas, Cuadrilla or Dart energy that is not only dangerous but also potentially disastrous for the future health and well being of the UK. Finally, PRAY/Lobby/Petition and CAMPAIGN that The GVT. have the good sense to BAN FRACKING ENTIRELY in the UK. N.B. this is a public event - Please DO ADD EVERYONE YOU KNOW :-) Background info: Drilling for HYDRAULIC FRACTURING (Fracking) requires forcing hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that have to be transported to said fracking sites (think about the possible pollution incurred from transportation), plus potential future increased costs in drinking water, should fracking be allowed to go ahead. Water used previously for fracking in the UK has previously been provided/purchased from a well know water company - yes the same one that you purchase your drinking water from. (That is if there is any water left thats suitable to be sold as drinking water - or bathed in, etc. should fracking be legislated to continue to go ahead in the UK). The water is then channeled a mile underground at VERY high speed, and underground explosions made into the earth. The water that then comes out is radioactive, and needs to be disposed of. (Chemicals are put into the water to soften the earth). In some cases, its unknown what chemicals the companies are putting in, or how the chemicals react together. The earth under the UK is full of unknown, underground faults and streams, the same ones that lead into the rivers/etc and reservoirs - (where we get our drinking water from). Fracking is known to be highly unsafe and banned in several countries. It has made people in America ill, killed animals and more locally severely contaminated land in Davyhulme, Trafford, Greater Manchester which has been drilled prior to testing for shale gas, and in the process has become so contaminated that it is now unsafe to even be around and people have had to vacate the premises. This land is now fit for nothing (other than possibly in the future a geothermal heat pump which would give SUSTAINABLE) energy rather than the very short lived LIMITED energy of shale gas. You could also add the previous example of 100,000 gallons of contaminated (radioactive) water being placed accidentally in the in the Manchester ship canal by a fracking company, (thinking that the ship canal was actually a sewer) - and although radioactivity slowly disappears after some time, MAY eventually enter the water system through precipitation. (Thankfully Manchester CURRENTLY gets its drinking water from the Lake District. This doesnt rule out problems with water in the rest of the UK. p.s. should you wish to know further facts about fracking, please join one of the many fracking group sites on facebook to learn more. Councils have already been given a profit share option to allow in on land, this is the FIRST TIME the PUBLIC are being given an opportunity to give their opinion. Its important that as many of us as possible act now/add your voice/vote to make a difference to our future more factual documents to support you endsreport/41374/managing-contamination-risks pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress/the-list/ you can find out much more, also from this document: frackingtheuk.co.uk/frackinguk.ZIP ...and you also may enjoy watching this short film, filmed at Barton Moss earlier this year: The film was originally commissioned by the church: https://youtube/watch?v=oJPVt0SD9gE
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:35:22 +0000
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