Monday, 15 April 2013

Shales Gas Fracking

Research has shown that fracking does cause earthquakes, but only little ones, that would not cause any serious damage and can hardly be felt. 
Fracking is a technique which blasts water into rocks to make cracks and free up the shale gas within the rocks. This way of releasing gas has been used to provide energy to Britain for 100 years 
Since 1929 there have been three earthquakes that people have actually felt and other actions can cause quakes up to 5.6. Read full article. 

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