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Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Fracking (25 Jan 2018)

Caroline Spelman: All oil and gas deposits in the UK are owned by the Crown. There are no plans for the Church Commissioners to use its land or mineral rights for the purpose of fracking. As a policy, The Church Commissioners do not seek applications for seismic drilling/exploration and fracking. Allowing seismic testing/exploratory drilling does not imply approval of fracking, litigation risks arise for...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Deep Geothermal Energy ( 6 Oct 2014)

Steven Agnew: I thank the Member for giving way, and I have a couple of questions for him.  You do not release radon; you bring it to the surface, which fracking has the potential to do but geothermal does not.  No water is produced, unlike in fracking, so that is another difference.  Does the Member accept that there are two types of geothermal energy?  There are the enhanced geothermal systems that...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: North/South Ministerial Council: Environment (13 Nov 2012)

Alex Attwood: In the near future and before Christmas, I will make an oral statement to the House.  It is time to take stock of where we are with fracking from the Department of the Environment's point of view.  Part of that statement will outline where the research is in respect of fracking.  The United States Environmental Protection Agency has two strands of work ongoing.  We must be mindful that in...

Clean Energy Transition Guidance - Question ( 8 Jun 2021)

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist: I can confirm to my noble friend that there is already a moratorium on fracking in the UK. I have been told that the UK also does not support international fracking. The moratorium came in following events during fracking operations at the end of 2019, and the Government confirm that we will take a presumption against issuing any further hydraulic fracking consents. This sends a clear message...

[Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] — Backbench business — UK Shale Gas (18 Jul 2013)

Alan Whitehead: I am sorry, but I cannot give way any more or I would lose the rest of my time. The other question is what happens with those large amounts of wells in terms of the fracking process? That process involves the use of between 2 million and 7 million gallons of water, and 5,000 gallons of chemicals, per frack; whether we know what is in the chemicals or not, that is the sort of amount of...

1. Questions to the First Minister: The New Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (20 Sep 2022)

Huw Irranca-Davies: First Minister, in your engagement with the new Prime Minister, when that happens, could I ask you to raise the pressing issue of clarification on the issue of fracking? Now, fracking is unsustainable and untenable environmentally and in respect of the climate change emergency. It contributes diddly squat to affordability or to supplying domestic UK markets because it is sold onto global...

Shale Gas Development (31 Oct 2018)

Jared O'Mara: Fracking is one of the No. 1 issues that my constituents email me about. That is why I am here speaking today. I receive more emails on it than on Brexit and the tree-felling programme in Sheffield, which is another environmental issue. One person said: “I asked myself, ‘would I let my family live in a community with fracking?’ The answer is no. I therefore cannot recommend anyone...

Infrastructure Bill [HL]: Report (3rd Day) (10 Nov 2014)

Lord Wigley: My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 115B, 115C and 123, which also stand in my name and are grouped with Amendment 114. First of all, could I say a word about the whole issue of fracking? Noble Lords will be aware that when this Bill was given its Second Reading there was no reference to the provision it now makes in relation to fracking. When we first started in Committee, there was no...

Written Answers — Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Fracking (29 May 2018)

Louise Haigh: ..., with reference to the Written Ministerial Statement of 17 May 2018, HCWS 690 on Energy Policy, what representations he has received from (a) organisations, (b) businesses and (c) individuals on fracking; which applications for exploratory fracking informed that statement; if he will publish the evidential basis for the statement that fracking will support jobs and the local economy; and...

Infrastructure Bill [Lords]: New Clause 15 — Advice on likely impact of onshore petroleum on the carbon budget (26 Jan 2015)

Alan Whitehead: I rise to voice my support for new clause 19, which I believe provides a substantial series of baseline starting points for any fracking to take place. If those baselines are not in place, no fracking takes place. That is my understanding of the new clause and it seems to me to provide very substantial protection indeed. I am also concerned about the cumulation of fracking over a period. I...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (10 Sep 2015)

Barry Gardiner: In the infrastructure debate, the Government promised they would safeguard our groundwater and sites of special scientific interest from the dangers of fracking. These promises have now been abandoned. The Government now permit fracking in SSSIs, and four out of five of the old water protection zones are no longer frack-free under the new water protection areas. Was the Secretary of State...

Public Bill Committee: Water Bill: Examination of Witnesses ( 3 Dec 2013)

Trevor Bishop: The fracking industry obviously uses fairly new technology. We have not seen a great deal of onshore oil exploration in England historically. Potentially, fracking could be many orders of magnitude greater than what we have seen historically, and a different process. We are working with the fracking industry to understand it. We have found that if fracking takes off moderately...

Hydraulic Fracturing: North East Derbyshire — [Mrs Anne Main in the Chair] (22 Nov 2017)

Lee Rowley: I agree with the hon. Lady in terms of the importance of local communities being taken along with the country as a whole when it comes to fracking. Whatever people’s views are on fracking, there is certainly a job to be done on that. Notwithstanding all the challenges to national policy I have described, that does not mean that we should automatically default to being in favour of fracking....

Scottish Parliament: Greenpark Energy (Licence to Extract Shale Gas) (17 Nov 2011)

Alison Johnstone: The minister may be aware of a report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research setting out concerns about ground and surface water contamination as a result of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the recent Caudrilla Resources report on the impact of the process in Blackpool, which stated that it is “highly probable” that fracking triggered the seismic tremors there. Those...

Scottish Economy — [Mrs Anne Main in the Chair] (27 Jun 2018)

Drew Hendry: I certainly do not support fracking. I do not believe that a country as rich in natural resources and renewable energy as we are—and indeed one with the oil and gas industry that we have at the moment—needs to go for fracking. I absolutely support the ban on fracking in Scotland. [Hon. Members: “There is no ban!”] There is a ban in Scotland. As to an effective ban, a court ruled in...

Business of the House (16 Jan 2014)

Anne McIntosh: May we have an early debate on the procedures to be followed for fracking? A number of fracking licences are being applied for in my area, and I honestly do not know what procedure applies. We heard in Energy and Climate Change questions that there will be a strategic environmental assessment through which we might be able to find out what the licences cover. There is an important difference...

Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Oct 2022)

Rosie Cooper: My constituents were absolutely delighted that the fracking application in West Lancashire was withdrawn after a moratorium was declared. Since then, we have not seen any new scientific evidence that indicates that fracking would now be safe. Despite that, the Government have decided to reverse that moratorium, committing to granting fracking licences only in areas that have local consent. I...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statements: North/South Ministerial Council:  Environment (17 Jun 2014)

Mark Durkan: I thank the Member for that question.  I reiterate to the Member my decision on fracking, which is that, in the absence of sound evidence that fracking is safe, is not harmful to the environment and is not harmful to human health, no application for fracking will be passed.  In my opinion and that of the Member, and any Member who has raised the subject of fracking here, that evidence does...

Fracking (Seismic Activity) (19 Mar 2019)

Lee Rowley: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require fracking operators to monitor seismic activity caused by fracking and take steps if such activity exceeds certain levels; and for connected purposes. It is great to have the opportunity to talk about this issue today. Fracking is a controversial and difficult subject on which people take different views. Often, when fracking is...

[Mr James Gray in the Chair] — Fracking (25 Nov 2014)

Michael Weir: ...under your chairmanship, Mr Gray, and I congratulate the right hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) on securing this important debate. I should make it clear at the outset that I do not support fracking, for all the reasons set out by others, which I will not repeat. Even in Denton, Texas, the home of fracking, in a recent referendum people voted to end it. Other states in the USA are...


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