The BBC programme reported the largest investment in fracking among North West public sector pension funds was made by the Greater Manchester scheme, a fund worth more than [pounds sterling]17bn, which has sunk almost [pounds sterling]1bn into companies that
frack globally.
Campaign group
Frack Free Lancashire has raised alarm about the tremors, and calls have mounted for the operation to cease altogether.
(84) Gas companies wishing to
frack must apply for a Petroleum Exploration and Development License through the national Department of Energy and Climate Change.
In chapter 3, Gold reports on a modern
frack job in 2012.
Communicating the technical details that separate earthquakes likely triggered by oil and gas wastewater disposal from temblors correlated to
frack jobs may be more challenging, said Oklahoma Geological Survey Director Jeremy Boak.
The study, which the agency called the "most complete compilation of scientific data to date," focused on five issues related to drinking water: withdrawals of millions of gallons of water needed to
frack each well; the mixing of chemicals into fracking fluid; the high-pressured injections of that fluid; tainted water that flows back to the surface; and wastewater treatment and disposal.
Representatives and legal counsel from the Water Board visited council members Sam Fruscione and Glenn Choolokian after the ordinance passage, putting them on notice that a lawsuit was likely to be filed that would challenge the
frack banning ordinance and the council's authority to issue the ordinance.
Phelim McAleer, producer of
Frack Nation, a rebuttal to and expose of Fox's Gasland, viewed the matter from a slightly different perspective:
No matter what you believe, by November you'll look at "
Frack" as the new "F" word, guaranteed.
The ban came after Shoal Point Energy made a controversial proposal to
frack both on- and offshore in an area surrounded by Gros Morne National Park, also a UNESCO Heritage Site.
Enterprising petroleum engineers have been hard at work trying to find ways to
frack without water.
Local residents formed protest groups
Frack Free Fylde, Residents Action on Fylde Fracking and Don't
Frack with the Fylde.