{"id":180,"date":"2022-09-26T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frackfreeryedale-org.stackstaging.com\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:18:45","slug":"myth-3-fracking-can-be-up-and-running-and-supplying-gas-within-months","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/myth-3-fracking-can-be-up-and-running-and-supplying-gas-within-months\/","title":{"rendered":"MYTH #3: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFracking can be up and running and supplying gas within months\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let\u2019s say that the experts are wrong, and fracking can produce gas for us now when we need it \u2013 shouldn\u2019t we get cracking with fracking?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACT: Even according to the industry\u2019s own best-case<\/em> scenario, fracking would produce only 5% of UK gas needs over the next 5 years.[i]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong> And that assumes no issues with planning, a dismantling of the current regulatory regime, and support from communities. A more likely scenario, according to Mike Bradshaw, professor of global energy at Warwick University, is that \u201cit would require up to 40 wells in different locations to arrive at a basic reserve estimate. That could take five or six years to complete.\u201d[ii]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The red section shows the % of UK gas demand that could be met with fracking in industry body UKOOG\u2019s \u201ccentral\u201d scenario by 2027. Gas demand is based on an average value for the period 2015-2020. Source: UKOOG<\/a>, BEIS<\/a>. Analysis<\/a> by Simon Evans for Carbon Brief. Chart by Tom Pearson using Highcharts<\/a>. [i]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/font size><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is on record as saying, \u201cEven if we lifted the fracking moratorium tomorrow, it would take up to a decade to extract sufficient volumes \u2013 and it would come at a high cost for communities and our precious countryside\u201d.  Bear in mind that the UK spent the best part of a decade attempting to get a shale industry off the ground with policy, media and political support from the highest levels. And failed. Repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of stupid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[i]<\/a> Factcheck: Why fracking is not the answer to the UK\u2019s energy crisis – Carbon Briefhttps:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/factcheck-why-fracking-is-not-the-answer-to-the-uks-energy-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2022\/03\/10\/could-u-k-fracking-wean-europe-off-its-addiction-to-russian-gas\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s say that the experts are wrong, and fracking can produce gas for us now when we need it \u2013 shouldn\u2019t we get cracking with fracking? FACT: Even according to the industry\u2019s own best-case scenario, fracking would produce only 5% of UK gas needs over the next 5 years.[i]  And that assumes no issues with… Continue reading MYTH #3: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFracking can be up and running and supplying gas within months\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frackfreeryedale.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}