This Looks Like The End Of Fracking In Great Britain -- February 7, 2019

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The shale gas firm Cuadrilla has said commercial fracking cannot go ahead in the UK unless rules on minor earthquakes are relaxed, after admitting it had only been able to frack a tiny section of its gas well near Blackpool because of seismicity regulations.

The company became the first to frack in the UK for years when it started operations last October at its Preston New Road site but was repeatedly forced to pause work for causing tremors that breached a 0.5-magnitude limit.

In a statement on Wednesday, the company revealed that less than 5% of the well had been fracked, or only two of the 41 so-called fracking stages along the well.

Wow, how long have they been fracking this well. They frack one stage, measure the seismic response; if it exceeds ridiculously low limits, they must stop drilling until seismic activity returns to baseline. They they wait 48 hours and frack the next stage. Repeat. Ad nauseum.

I think they've been drilling this wells since 2012. The article says they began operations last October at this site, but I've reading about Caudrilla and fracking and seismic activity since at least 2012.

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