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Tag: Fracking

Another fracking melodrama

Another fracking melodrama

Published 6 June 2016

For the first time, American scientists have published a paper showing that wastewater from a shale-gas well and a coalbed methane site, disposed of by injecting it into a deep well, has reached a surface stream.

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George Monbiot

Fracking with George Monbiot

Published 23 August 2014

Matthew Taylor brings together James Woudhuysen and George Monbiot for a head-to-head discussion on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for the the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Agree to differ‘.

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Fracking in China

China: big shale reserves, but little fracking before 2020

Published 26 September 2013

When China finally gets fracking, there’ll be enough water to do the job. And fracking won’t kill  the number of people coal does

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Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears

Published 17 October 2011

When I hear the phrase “energy security”, I reach for my revolver’.

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