Aibu to share how to put a legal block on fracking under your home

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

wrongmove.org

It allows you to see if there's likely to be fracking under your house in the future and to put a legal block on it happening.

I think every postcode will come up as possible because that is the reality

I'm against fracking

In answer to someone about how we could keep lights on. How about large companies using less power. Do department store lights need to be on overnight etc. Thats one big wastage...

Now I'm the first to admit that I have no clue how they do this fracking malarkey but I do know it requires under ground areas.

Wakefield disused mine???

My postcode is at risk as well, in fact the whole city is at risk. Weird that!

Mine isn't, nor are the other 6 postcodes I put in.

Mine says at risk but my grandparents and dads didn't.

This is rubbish. I put in where I live (suburban London): at risk. My old house (central London): risk of fracking. Where are they planning to frack? Centre court? West London Garden squares? Hyde Park?

Load of rubbish I say

Shale gas won't last for ever. So we should invest in renewables and make homes and businesses more energy efficient.

What's wrong with fracking? I thought it was all fine?

It's a crock.

How would that website know the deeds to my house, which expressly has a clause relating to minerals under my house - we are not the owners of anything further than 10ft down.

We live in a coal mining area, with 8 old working seams under our house.

And..... We're likely to get fracked.

Remember fracking can drill sideways. They don't have to have the drilling rigs in your garden to drill under your house.

And the map is broadly correct, DC has opened up a massive area of the UK for fracking.

Mine is at risk. Not surprising as I live right near Balcombe lol. In fact according to their map there are 3 drilly things within 50km of me.

Do some people think fracking is a good idea?

If you zoom out on the map it shows you how crude the website is. The entire central belt of Scotland is apparently being considered. The vast majority of England is apparently being considered, except some parts of Lancashire and Cumbria, some of SW England and most of the area that gets BBC look east as their local news. Most of wales is white, but the Cardiff area is being considered, and NI is fine.

It's clearly bollocks. My house is not going to be tracked under. Firstly because it's a well established suburban area, and secondly because it would entirely collapse due to the historical mining in the area.

this shows all the current licences areas and who holds the licences at present.

Lots of these sites are conventional sites but fracking has been used at some of them previously.
There is quite a lot made of high volume hydraulic fracturing not having been used in the uk before but the uk won't be following the us model exactly due to the restrictions of the geography.

liquidstate absolutely!!

lights and computers OFF in offices at night. And shops either heated or doors open, not both. Give the staff a jumper.

Perhaps some of the contributors to this thread would like give some of their specific objections to fracking?

Accepted, there will be some surface buildings a bit like an oil-rig or mine-head, but I'm guessing that's not the major issue.

What else is there to be so concerned about?

That link just froze my PC. Had to close it down and restart (I was wondering if it was some dodgy site TBH )

And if anyone links to that American video where they set fire to the gas coming out of the water tap you need you need to learn to research properly!

Oh and the land holder won the case cited by Greenpeace, but got no compensation - case was a victory for the mining companies. This is why the coal board often mined under houses.
Fracking is alos the best thibg to happen in energy for many years

I am vehemently against fracking...

...but that website is pure bullshit.

I just entered all the postcodes for our whole family (inner London, South East, North West) and we're all up for it apparently. It's fishy.

MrsPnut 's map is far more interesting.

It came up as unlikely that we would be fracked.

I'm going to read the bgs website tomorrow. I trust the bgs to have a fairly impartial analysis. The greenpeace map seems to show where geologically fracking could potentially happen. It doesn't take into account surface obstructions.