Scotsman: Dart makes ‘fracking’ promise
DART Energy, the Australian-listed gas developer, has pledged not to use controversial “fracking” techniques at a site in Dumfriesshire.
The firm inherited the Canonbie licence last year after buying Greenpark Energy, which planned to use hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, whereby high-pressure fluids would be injected into rocks to free coal-bed methane, a gas sold as a fuel.
Now Dart has promised not to frack, but will instead drill horizontally into the coal bed. The firm claims it has demonstrated that commercially viable levels of CBM can be produced without fracking.