UK fracking ban to be brought forward as Labour counters Reform promise

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1. This sounds like a bad idea. Labour will ban it and Reform will bring it back leaving energy companies unable to plan making our bills more expensive. Shouldnt they just make it a policy in their next manifesto?

2. I don’t know why Labour didn’t lead with things like this, instead of pissing all their political capital up the wall with things like the OSA/ID cards.

   Like, this is actually something people can get behind and understand. It’s a popular policy that the Tories/Reform wouldn’t want as its going to generate the historical wealth and lot more wealth. This is what they should be doing.

   Instead, they’ve gone full surveillance state, making themselves seem like the evil overlords rather than a sitting government. Responding to any and all dissent with “you’re a paedophile” and “yeah, we heard but we’re doing it anyway” and its ultimately going to make them irrelevant. They’re killing the party and the ability to do things like ban fracking to try and force through Tony Blairs wet dream to sell our data to billionaire American’s. Mad.

3. Fracking is a great way to discover seismic faults. Regions that have had little seismic activity historically can experience noticeable quakes after fracking or wastewater injection.

   Here are some notable examples of earthquakes linked to fracking or wastewater injection:

   1. Oklahoma, USA. Over the past decade, Oklahoma has seen a huge increase in earthquakes. Many are magnitude 3–5 and have been linked to wastewater injection from fracking operations, not the fracking itself. A magnitude 5.7 quake in 2011 near Prague, Oklahoma was associated with deep wastewater disposal.

   2. Pohang, South Korea. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake damaged buildings and caused injuries. Investigations suggested that deep geothermal fracking operations triggered the quake by reactivating a fault.

   3. Texas, USA. The Dallas–Fort Worth area has seen earthquakes increasing in frequency. Many are linked to wastewater disposal wells associated with hydraulic fracturing, mostly magnitude 3–4.

   4. Alberta, Canada. Some induced quakes around magnitude 4 have been associated with both fracking and fluid injection in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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