Help! – Part 1

3. It has now peaked leaving 1) land and water poisoned 2) farmers bankrupt 3) animals and people sick and dead.

48% OF BRITISH PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT FRACKING IS.

View across the Hodder Valley in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, one of the main targets for fracking companies. Photograph: Alamy

 

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Addition to the above: The fossil fuels obtained by fracking are oil as well as gas. Each operation of a well is called “a play”.

Improved technology has increased the yield from the fracked rocks and made it possible to drill deeper. After three years the fossil fuels obtained from each well are down to 13% so constant drilling is necessary for production to stay level. Obviously the sweet spots are drilled first.

There is no doubt that vast profits have been made. Nonetheless fracking has plateaued and the problem for frackers is to service their debts by drilling less productive plays.
Of course they do not take into account the devastation caused. “Cleaning up” would be impossible anyway.

They will continue to frack until 2020 when diminished supplies will bring this bonanza to an end. With a probable string of bankruptcies and financial losses.
Six more years! We are giving the earth a hard time.