UPI: Cuadrilla to install seismic monitors

British energy company Cuadrilla Resources said it plans to install seismic monitoring equipment at a shale natural gas project in northwestern England.

Equipment installed at a shale natural gas site in Lancashire is expected give the company warnings to prevent seismic activity associated with shale natural gas exploration techniques.

"One of the most important features of this system will be to demonstrate that any fractures created by hydraulic fracturing stay thousands of feet below the aquifer," Cuadrilla Chief Executive Officer Francis Egan said in a statement.

"It will be an effective way of demonstrating that the process is indeed no threat to water supplies."  MORE