blackpool rock

[Laurence]

drilling for gas in the rocky shore off Blackpool to continue

Scotland mayl want to buy some after independence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMLHJTi7PQ

fracking is pumping water into rocks out comes the gas, the protestesters think this will polute the water course

Edited April 18, 2012 by Laurence

[PullMyFinger]

After independence we'll all be heating our houses and cooking with green elictricity so no thanks. We will however still be selling the surplus electricity to suppliers in England who in turn will sell it to English consumers. Maybe we should consider selling some fresh water too? Nah feck them, let them keep their hosepipe bans.

The gas off Blackpool has a high H₂S content which is highly poisonous. You're coming across as being an uneducated old grunter Laurence, why would that be?

[Alex MacLeod]

Contrary to what Laurence may think an oil well or a gas well is not a hole in the ground. The oil and gas are held in pores in the rock. Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) causes cracks in the rock that release the oil and gas. Many of the oil and gas fields in the North sea are held within sandstone rock which doesn't need much fracking but instead can be swept into the well by water injection. Its a shame the protesters couldnt learn a bit about our oil and gas reserviors before wasting their and everyone elses time. Underground water courses lie up to a few hundred feet beneath the surface. Oil and gas wells lie a few thousand feet and more. Some up to three miles below the surface. It is not possible for one to affect the other.

[PullMyFinger]

Its a shame the protesters couldnt learn a bit about our oil and gas reserviors before wasting their and everyone elses time. Underground water courses lie up to a few hundred feet beneath the surface. Oil and gas wells lie a few thousand feet and more. Some up to three miles below the surface. It is not possible for one to affect the other.

So if an existing faultline were to come into play it wouldn't have an effect on the water supply ever under any circumstance?

Geologists would know better than a leyman like me but I'm sure an employee of an oil/gas company will think what he's told to think.

[Alex MacLeod]

Faultlines dont hold oil and gas. It would seep out. Also drilling through those faultlines cannot be achieved. Movement of the faults would shear the pipe.