Blackpool Gazette: Frack boss: ‘We won’t let works damage homes’

he boss of the firm which wants to extract gas from beneath Fylde’s fields has vowed his company’s future activities will not damage houses.Cuadrilla Resources’ chief executive Francis Egan welcomed a university report which concluded that fracking, the extraction of gas from under ground shale beds using high pressure water and chemicals, would not pose a serious earth tremor risk.

The Durhan University report stated that the size and number of felt earthquakes caused by fracking was low compared to other man-made triggers such as mining, geothermal activity or even filling a reservoir for water storage.

Durham’s Professor Richard Davies said the study looked at hundreds of fracking operations globally. He said: “By comparison, most fracking-related events release a negligible amount of energy equivalent to or even less than someone jumping off a ladder onto the floor.”  MORE