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Originally Posted by Artangel ->
It must be scary living in an area where Fracking is going on.
Has it affected house prices?
House prices fell but not dramatically - by about 5%.

The Preston New Road drill site is in the middle of a rural area, the parish of Westby-with-Plumptons, in the Fylde, Lancashire, which has a population of only 1,200, living in hamlets. It is these residents who are most affected by seismic activity, pollution and heavy traffic along country lanes, but nearby villages and towns have all felt the "earthquakes", which is why resistance to fracking has been built up and maintained.

One of the nearby villages affected is Wrea Green, with it's huge village green and large duck pond - a very desirable place to live and home to many wealthy and influential people:


Obviously, the residents here, too, prefer not to have the ground shaking underneath them .....
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03-11-2019, 12:58 PM
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Well I still wouldn't like it Ray, and certainly wouldn't buy a house in the area. Would you?

Yes, it wouldn't put me off.


This is an interesting interactive map showing seismic activity year on year in the UK


http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbr...de=earthquakes
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Yes, it wouldn't put me off.
The persistent heavy trucking might though .....

UK fracking firm plans to dump wastewater in the sea

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...r-in-sea-ineos

Shale companies pump water, chemicals and sand at high pressure underground to fracture shale rock and release the gas within, but each well can use as much as 6m gallons of water. Between 20 and 40% flows back to the surface, containing salts, chemicals and naturally occurring radioactive material which the Environment Agency (EA) says is likely to be classified as radioactive waste.

Under EA regulations, the water must be treated on site or elsewhere at a designated treatment facility, before a permit is issued to discharge it. Ineos and the industry trade body said any fracking wastewater would be treated before being disposed of.
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03-11-2019, 01:36 PM
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You should come and live in a South Yorkshire Pit village, it makes fracking look like digging up spuds....

Subsidence has damaged half the houses in the village and the slag heaps, that resembled the Alps, moved a couple of years ago and closed the railway line and had to be levelled and spread out over another six fields. Half the population died from chest complaints, and the other half stagger around the village in their seventies coughing coal dust and asbestos up.

In its heyday, fifty lorries a day trundled through the village, and every month or two, deceased miners had to be winched to the surface after being buried from a collapsing shaft or runaway wagon. We used to hate the sound of the siren that warned us of another accident, Dad was one of the victims, fortunately he survived and never went down the mine again.

About this time of year the air was thick with fog and dust hanging in the atmosphere from all the coal fires keeping homes warm, and every house was equipped with an outbuilding called a 'coal house' where winter supplies of fuel could be stored. Nobody complained because it was our livelyhood and we all lived in council houses anyway.

During the miners strike nobody worked and had to live off the goodwill and charity of each other, baking stuff and receiving handouts off the well to do...Anyone who did not withdraw their labour were called scabs and driven out of the village. I witnessed many skirmishes between what once were friends and work colleagues....

Fracking!.....You don't know the half of it...and if it means not going cap in hand to the French or the EU for our energy supplies, then I'm all for it.....
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
You should come and live in a South Yorkshire Pit village, it makes fracking look like digging up spuds....

Subsidence has damaged half the houses in the village and the slag heaps, that resembled the Alps, moved a couple of years ago and closed the railway line and had to be levelled and spread out over another six fields. Half the population died from chest complaints, and the other half stagger around the village in their seventies coughing coal dust and asbestos up.

In its heyday, fifty lorries a day trundled through the village, and every month or two, deceased miners had to be winched to the surface after being buried from a collapsing shaft or runaway wagon. We used to hate the sound of the siren that warned us of another accident, Dad was one of the victims, fortunately he survived and never went down the mine again.

About this time of year the air was thick with fog and dust hanging in the atmosphere from all the coal fires keeping homes warm, and every house was equipped with an outbuilding called a 'coal house' where winter supplies of fuel could be stored. Nobody complained because it was our livelyhood and we all lived in council houses anyway.

During the miners strike nobody worked and had to live off the goodwill and charity of each other, baking stuff and receiving handouts off the well to do...Anyone who did not withdraw their labour were called scabs and driven out of the village. I witnessed many skirmishes between what once were friends and work colleagues....

Fracking!.....You don't know the half of it...and if it means not going cap in hand to the French or the EU for our energy supplies, then I'm all for it.....
If fracking is permitted, Yorkshire is on the list for exploitation, too:

Yorkshire village faces petrochemical giant in anti-fracking fight
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ineos-fracking

Ineos, owned by UK’s richest man, wants to overturn ban on well next to sheltered housing
https://frack-off.org.uk/region/yorkshire/

The scale of the threat of Shale Gas in Yorkshire should not be underestimated. Rathlin Energy and Third Energy, two conventional oil and gas companies, have drilled deep wells to explore the eastern side of the Bowland Shale. Both companies have used used stealth to pursue their fracking endeavours and both now have plans to carry out hydraulic fracturing tests. In addition Third Energy have employed Tesla Exploration to conduct invasive seismic testing in their licence area.
 
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