{"id":56092,"date":"2015-08-21T01:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/?p=56092"},"modified":"2015-08-21T01:42:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T01:42:57","slug":"the-status-of-fracking-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=56092","title":{"rendered":"The Status Of Fracking In Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56093\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/images.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>It just came to my attention that last night Earth experienced an earthquake just down the road from my home in Colorado. This quake measured 4.2 on the Richter scale and the likely cause of the shake is the practice of hydraulically (using water) fracturing the rock deep in the earth to facilitate collection and removal of various forms of natural gas. Everyone calls it \u201cfracking\u201d and it is a very hot topic all across America. The largest ever recorded earthquake in Colorado occurred in 2011 at 5.7 on the scale and is now acknowledged to have been caused by fracking. It&#8217;s happening more often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\">Many environmentalists and those who claim to have been adversely affected by past fracking are aggressively on the attack warning of an array of environmental disasters that await the fracking society. The chemicals used are toxic, the water use is extremely high and the overall specter of increasing carbon based climate change makes large investments in gas recovery via hydraulic fracturing a bad bet they say. Then there are the earthquakes. Meanwhile fracking proponents see the potential for big boosts to local drilling economies, a more stable and secure energy resource for the nation and of course big profits for the extended oil and gas industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/images-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-56094\" alt=\"images 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/images-2.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><strong>Fracking is a Scottish problem too.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\">So which side is right? It turns out that people are asking this very same question around the globe, including in Scotland right now. Industry wants to frack Scotland and they have said so. Licenses for drilling have been issued. Responding to a very vocal anti-fracking grassroots lobby, last January the Scottish Government announced an indefinite ban on fracking in Scotland. We also know that Scottish First Minister and Deputy First Minister met with the big frackers, particularly the oil and gas company Ineos, on the very day that the Scottish moratorium was announced. Ineos sees big profits in fracking Scotland and they have not been shy about that. The fracking ban in Scotland is likely to last only so long as it takes for a national debate to occur and then the matter will be back on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/images-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56095\" alt=\"images 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/images-3.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><strong>England&#8217;s Frack-O-Rama.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\">Presently south of the border in England its a frack-a-thon as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/earth\/energy\/fracking\/11809113\/Fracking-UK-could-it-happen-near-you.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cameron just opened up an additional approximately 1,000 square miles to the opportunity for drilling and a plan to fast track industry applications<\/a>. The oil and gas industry has plenty to do in England presently to hold them over during the dry spell in Scotland. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/frack-off-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-56099 alignright\" alt=\"frack off map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/frack-off-map-300x186.png\" width=\"160\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>You might be a bit concerned about where your own clan or family ancestral lands fit into Scotland&#8217;s terrestrial fossil fuel plans. Check out this<a href=\"http:\/\/frack-off.org.uk\/extreme-energy-fullscreen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> cool interactive map<\/a> to discover if your ancestral clan or family lands are in danger of disturbance from this extreme and extremely controversial energy practice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\">A Poll!\u00a0 A Poll!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Candara,sans-serif\"> So how about a wee ScotClans family poll? If you have an opinion sound off with a comment below. Where do you stand on the question of Scottish fracking?\u00a0 &#8220;Frack Free&#8221; or &#8220;Drill Baby Drill&#8221;?\u00a0 Should Scotland keep the Fracking Ban or ditch it?\u00a0 Does it worry you in terms of ancestral lands? Do you think that Scotland is missing out on an economic windfall if it decides to ban fracking for good?\u00a0 Join the discussion as we follow along with a very important issue for our ancestral homeland.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just came to my attention that last night Earth experienced an earthquake just down the road from my home in Colorado. 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