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The Church of England Conditionally Backs Fracking
The Church of England has conditionally backed fracking in the UK but warned that any development of shale gas reserves in the country must not distract or delay efforts to expand low-carbon renewable energy.
In a recently released briefing paper, the Church accepts that a robust planning and regulatory fracking regime is possible, but states that ongoing research into, and monitoring of, any impact on health and the environment is needed as part of that regime.
The paper also asks that the legitimate concerns of individuals and communities who are directly affected by fracking activities are heard and states that, where developments go forward, it is essential that appropriate protections and compensation are put in place.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May is a supporter of fracking, voting in line with government policy against additional regulation on exploration companies and an 18-month moratorium on the practice in 2015.
12 Comments on "The Church of England Conditionally Backs Fracking"
Apneaman on Thu, 19th Jan 2017 11:01 pm
Well if it’s good enough for the English Jesus cult then it’s good enough for me by golly. I’d like to see em frack Stone Hinge. Dead center circle – a big cancer rig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw
rockman on Thu, 19th Jan 2017 11:02 pm
My first thought: I wonder what absolution goes for these days? LOL
GregT on Thu, 19th Jan 2017 11:14 pm
RIGPORN 🙂
Go Speed Racer on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 12:36 am
Lord Jesus drives a great big $250,000 motorhome,
and He will fill up those 50 gallon gas tanks.
brough on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 3:59 am
Ok, The C of E is typical of the crazy, mixed up bag of sh*t that passes for UK constitution. I like to know what the Church of Scotland, Church of Wales and the Church of Ireland’s position is on fracking.
Cloggie on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 4:13 am
Hallelujah!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10245697/Church-of-England-in-fracking-land-grab.html
Four thousand holes in Blackburn-Lancashire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Dh-I0_m5Y
Antius on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 6:27 am
Simple economics is going to kill this. The UK is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe and environmental legislation is a lot more onerous than the US. The UK is also the most geologically heterogeneous region (of its size) in the world. The cost of drilling on land is going to be huge and will be fraught additional costs due to environmental legislation and legal action from citizens who don’t want it in their back yard. When all is said and done, shale may end up providing a few per cent of UK oil and gas.
Underground coal gasification is a more promising technology, if the carbon dioxide emissions can be captured successfully. The UK coal feasibly power much of Europe using pumped hydrogen from coal gasification under the North Sea. If this could be burned in combined cycle gas turbines, then it provides the required back-up power source for renewable energy converters. The CO2 could be compressed and liquefied and pumped into the Atlantic where the deep ocean pressure and temperature will keep it liquid until it dissolves. All we need is a 300mile long polypropylene pipe that can get the CO2 off the continental shelf.
Davy on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 6:44 am
Antius, these are good points but scale will likely get in the way making them unable to make more than a dent in depletion. Depletion and economic decline is happening too fast for alternatives and unconventionals to catch up. The technology is there but the money is not in the time frame needed. All the new technologies talked about here are failures at the level of cost and time. They are going to have an impact but not a transformative one. They are going to be extenders and delay the inevitable.
Alternatives real challenge is when they reach over 40% market penetration. Here is where the cost really escalate. Alternatives cost is already too high. It doesn’t matter if they are dropping because they will not drop much further. Much of this drop has been the result of malinvestment leading to surplus manufacturing. When economic decline and the increased cost of further market penetration hit expect rapid increases to diminish. Current rapid increases are from such a low base making them deceptive. Unconventionals are already beset with high cost if you include carbon capture. This is all old technology that must be applied as new technology. New construction is very expensive today. This at a time when oil prices are stagnant.
I don’t see any of this scaling up to make a difference but we are in a zone of change that is a zone of an unknown. I don’t think anyone really knows how all this will unfold. That said the destructive changes everywhere and at many levels can only go one way and that is from bad to worse. The genie is out of the bottle and you are not going to get her back with fancy technology and fake money.
Antius on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 8:02 am
True enough Davy. We are in a world of s***. Too many people stuffing their heads into the sand for too long, not really understanding what is going on and trying to prop up the status quo with disastrous monetary policy. It has burned all the capital that could have made a difference.
Hubert on Fri, 20th Jan 2017 9:59 pm
Church of England is Pedophile Heaven. They have more in common with Satanic Cult than God.
Kenz300 on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 11:54 am
Pope Francis’s edict on climate change will anger deniers and US churches | World news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/pope-francis-edict-climate-change-us-rightwing
Head Of The Episcopal Church Says It’s ‘Sinful’ To Ignore Climate Change
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/katherine-jefferts-schori-climate-change_n_6949532.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
Hubert on Sat, 21st Jan 2017 5:33 pm
You don’t have to worry about climate change when we run out of oil. It will be a lot sooner than you think.