Extract from Lords debate on Shale Gas Lord Truscott (Ind Lab):
...By the very nature of fracking and unconventional gas, where
production falls off after 18 months, the UK will need to develop
thousands, not hundreds, of shale gas wells. This has caused
problems in the wide open spaces of the US. How will it work in
this densely populated island of ours? What about the truck
movements? In the US, the environmental picture has not been great.
In 2014, Oklahoma experienced 585 earthquakes...Request free trial
Extract from Lords debate
on Shale Gas
(Ind Lab): ...By
the very nature of fracking and unconventional gas, where
production falls off after 18 months, the UK will need to develop
thousands, not hundreds, of shale gas wells. This has caused
problems in the wide open spaces of the US. How will it work in
this densely populated island of ours? What about the truck
movements? In the US, the environmental picture has not been great.
In 2014, Oklahoma experienced 585 earthquakes with a magnitude of
three and over. According to the US Geological Survey, these were
caused by the disposal of wastewater reinjected into the wells by
the shale operators. A study by the University of Alberta,
co-authored by the Geological Survey of Canada, confirmed a definitive link between
fracking and almost every large earthquake recorded in Alberta and
British Columbia since 1985...
(CB):...We
recommended various regulatory safeguards to manage these risks.
Vital to effective management of the risks is comprehensive and
rigorous monitoring. In particular, methane and other contaminants
in groundwater should be closely monitored, as well as potential
leakages of methane and other gases into the atmosphere. Similar
conclusions on the importance of rigorous monitoring were reached
by Public Health England in its 2014 report and in other recent
reports by science and engineering academies within Europe and
elsewhere, including the Australian and Canadian academies. Our
Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering review made 10 major
recommendations, all of which the Government accepted. The Task
Force on Shale Gas, chaired by the noble Lord, , reached similar
conclusions and made similar recommendations in its final report,
published in 2015...
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Extract from Ten minute
rule motion (Commons) on the Queen’s Sapphire
Jubilee
(Romford)
(Con):...The United Kingdom, in taking the lead, will also
encourage Her Majesty’s other realms to celebrate the sapphire
jubilee—after all the Queen is also Queen of Antigua and Barbuda;
of Australia; the Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Canada; Grenada; Jamaica; New Zealand; Papua New
Guinea; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines; the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu. Our friends in these
nations must also have the chance to celebrate, as the sapphire
jubilee is as much their celebration as it is one for the British
Isles...
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