Do we really want this here................no way!

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/hands-off-our-coastline?source=facebook-share-button&time=1423174601

They admit that the rocks around the gasification chamber will fracture. This means they are fracking as well as gasifying.

 

Err. no, it doesn't!  I'd like to hear what a selection of experts say before signing that.

 

One thing's for sure: if it means an economic boost then any government is going to approve it with suitable safeguards.  The most pragmatic thing is to exact the highest possible price for the local economy, else we'll get the downside without any upside.

Interesting that Texans appear to have patented the gasification of coal in-place in the mid 1960's.

http://www.google.com/patents/US3298434

 

Sad if we have to pay royalties for something our NE mining engineers would probably have come up with earlier.  Was nationalisation responsible for the lack of innovation here Adam?

 

Anyway, it's surely not fracking, and those who say it is are surely climbing of the a mindless anti-frack bandwagon. It's up to the proponents to make a reasoned case for it though; always assuming HMG regards us as intelligent enough to have some input.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fracking-likely-linked-to-4-4-magnitude-quake-in-fox-creek-1.2938900

Not far from here, a different scenario but......