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    halving the associated CO2 emissions. In the United Kingdom, the first hydraulic fracturing of an oil well was carried out shortly after discovery of the West...
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    and 67% of the natural gas production in the United States. Environmental safety and health concerns about hydraulic fracturing emerged in the 1980s, and...
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    hydraulic fracturing proppants (either sand or aluminium oxide) hold the fractures open. Hydraulic fracturing began as an experiment in 1947, and the...
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    by the United Kingdom. (For non-renewable resources of the United Kingdom see: Coal mining in the United Kingdom, Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom...
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  • the United Kingdom Unconventional (oil & gas) reservoir Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom Underground coal gasification Coal bed methane British...
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  • forming the mosses in the northeast of the area. The Borough of Fylde is a local government area covering the south of the Fylde plain. The rest is covered...
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  • Cuadrilla Resources (category Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom)
    Kingdom. The company intend to develop shale gas in the UK by using hydraulic fracturing. Its chairman is Roy Franklin, who is also deputy chairman of Equinor...
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    odours from hydraulic fracturing equipment, such as compressors, pumps, and valves". Also gases and hydraulic fracturing fluids dissolved in flowback water...
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  • chemicals and the composition of fracturing fluid. In 2010, Halliburton announced the creation of food additive based hydraulic fracturing fluid in response...
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    crystalline exposure. Hydraulic fracturing uses abundant amounts of sand in the process of fracturing as part of the hydraulic fluid. The fracturing fluid consists...
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  • Frack Off (category Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom)
    unconventional gas extraction. Frack Off began with a campaign against the use of hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as fracking for shale gas extraction with...
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    the United Kingdom Biodiesel in the United Kingdom Coal mining in the United Kingdom Geothermal power in the United Kingdom Hydraulic fracturing in the...
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  • Weald Basin (category Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom)
    of onshore oil production in the UK. As of August 2013 there was significant opposition to hydraulic fracturing developing in southeast England centred...
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    environmental impacts. The Karoo is the geographic area that is the focus of future hydraulic fracturing in South Africa, derived from a word in the local language...
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  • Third Energy Onshore (category Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom)
    Retrieved 10 February 2018. Evers, Angus (10 February 2017). "Hydraulic fracturing - the third way". Shoosmiths. Retrieved 10 February 2018. Gosden, Emily...
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    fissures. The forced change in geologic structure allows gas molecules to escape, therefore allowing the natural gas to be harvested. Hydraulic fracturing has...
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  • Refracktion (category Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom)
    acceptable . Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom Notes Report in Utility Week, 24 April 2013, accessed...
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    banning the practice and a de facto moratorium in place in Quebec (Canada), and some of the states of the US. Up until the mid-2000s, hydraulic fracturing was...
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    along with the other substances in hydraulic-fracturing fluid, are sometimes used to determine the injection profile and location of fractures created by...
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    Infrastructure Act 2015 (category Environmental law in the United Kingdom)
    appear to be defined. Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom "Infrastructure Act will get Britain building". "Planning Law in the Infrastructure Act...
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    Balcombe drilling protest (category Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom)
    The judgement concludes by rejecting the request for a judicial review. Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing...
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    ceramic materials, designed to keep an induced hydraulic fracture open, during or following a fracturing treatment, most commonly for unconventional reservoirs...
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    sceptical of hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom, Yeo revised his personal opinion and supported the use of the technique in the UK. In 2012, he announced...
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    Ukraine due to the threat of military action in that area. There are also other challenges to hydraulic fracturing in Ukraine, such as a lack of a proper regulatory...
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    hydraulic fracturing proppants (either sand or aluminium oxide) hold the fractures open. Hydraulic fracturing began as an experiment in 1947, and the...
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    limitations. In 2011, after public pressure France became the first nation to ban hydraulic fracturing, based on the precautionary principle as well as the principal...
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    had been 65 hydraulic fracturing activities in 39 wells with no evidence of any related environmental problems. The report also found that the risk of contaminating...
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    Water testing (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2022)
    sources near fracturing wells, to identify contamination associated with hydraulic fracturing. Fracturing wells will be closed if fracturing fluid is released...
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    trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has made large volumes of shale gas more...
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