EU Perspectives has already considered three of the four Greek elements: earth, water and air. Should commercial fracking become common-place in the EU it will have the greatest environmental impact on these three elements. The fourth in this series “Fire” is going to look at the other side of the coin – the geopolitical implications …
Tag: Fracking
Fracking: Water
Hydraulic fracking, as the name implies, is water-intensive. Any discussion on fracking, therefore, must consider what effect it is going to have on this valuable resource. Before continuing however, it is worth turning the clock back to 1868 - the height of Britain’s drive towards industrialisation - and the Victorian tort case of, Rylands v …
Fracking: An Introduction
The pace at which on-line technology is developing is as nothing when compared to the changes the energy sector is currently under-going. The practice of hydraulic fracking, which appeared on the horizon around seven or eight years ago is, like a force 12 side-wind, sweeping commonly held assumption about the energy market off its perch. …
