Refracktion is a British group concerned with the environmental impact of
hydraulic fracturing
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "frack ...
(fracking) for gas on the
Fylde Coast of
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
, England. They believe fracking will have inevitable negative effects on the local environment and its amenity value.
Refracktion referred the fracking company
Cuadrilla Resources
Cuadrilla Resources is an oil and gas exploration and production company founded in 2007. It is headquartered in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, and has operations in the United Kingdom. The company intend to develop shale gas in the UK by using hyd ...
to the
Advertising Standards Authority over a brochure published by the company that claimed fracking was safe. Six of 18 specific complaints were upheld, however, 11 of the 18 controversial passages were deemed to be acceptable .
Stop Fylde Fracking, ''"The claim that Cuadrilla used 'proven' safe technologies has not been substantiated" – ASA'', 24 April 2013, accessed 11 June 2013
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See also
* Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
The environmental impact of fracking is related to land use and water consumption, air emissions, including methane emissions, brine and fracturing fluid leakage, water contamination, noise pollution, and health. Water and air pollution are the bi ...
* Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom
Fracking in the United Kingdom started in the late 1970s with fracturing of the conventional oil and gas fields near the North Sea. It was used in about 200 British onshore oil and gas wells from the early 1980s. The technique attracted ...
References
Notes
Sources
ASA Adjudication on Cuadrilla Resources Ltd, 24 April 2013, accessed 7 June 2013
External links
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Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom
Anti-fracking movement
Hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom
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