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Green Madness: UK to Fill Last Natural Gas Fracking Wells With Cement
Breitbart ^ | 01/31/2025 | Kurt Zindulka

Posted on 01/31/2025 5:50:10 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

In stark contrast to Donald Trump’s agenda in the United States of exploiting cheap domestic natural gas to bolster the economy, Britain is preparing to literally pour concrete into its only remaining open fracking wells.

The North Sea Transition Authority regulator has ordered the permanent closure of two natural gas wells at Preston New Road in Lancashire, some eight years after shale gas was extracted from the site. The owner of the wells, Cuadrilla, said that it will start covering them in concrete starting next month, The Telegraph reports.

The closure of Britain’s final two open wells comes despite the country expanding imports of natural gas from the United States and elsewhere to meet its energy demands, with so-called green alternatives still lacking in their ability to power the country on their own.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cement; energy; europe; fill; fracking; green; madness; naturalgas; uk; wells
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RIP UK
1 posted on 01/31/2025 5:50:10 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In desperate need of energy....with energy prices so high they are literally driving companies out of business...with energy prices so high the government cut energy payments to retirees....the Gaia worshipers demand and get them to sabotage their own remaining natural gas (which is the cleanest of fossil fuels) wells.

This is self harm. There is no other appropriate description for it. Meanwhile the UK contributes about 1% of all carbon emissions worldwide. China and India add more carbon emissions each year than the UK emits in total.


2 posted on 01/31/2025 5:54:27 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberals need to see bodies before they will ever believe they are wrong.


3 posted on 01/31/2025 5:54:34 AM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The sun has indeed set on the British empire.


4 posted on 01/31/2025 5:54:59 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Alas, poor UK, we knew them well. (Heard something like that somewhere...) ;-)


5 posted on 01/31/2025 5:55:42 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The UK is a museum that people live in..................


6 posted on 01/31/2025 5:55:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

The UK is a Deep State run hell hole.


7 posted on 01/31/2025 5:57:12 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That is what you do when you plug a well. I would love to find out if they were making commercial gas before being plugged. Then they really are dumbas*ses.


8 posted on 01/31/2025 5:57:27 AM PST by Eli Kopter (Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hate to say it, but it started with Thatcher closing down the coal mines, because it was “dirty”.


9 posted on 01/31/2025 5:57:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I wonder how “green” candles are.

Side note to the British elite: Please ignore this post. It’s for the working class. You will always have plenty of energy.

10 posted on 01/31/2025 5:58:05 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Red Badger

Indeed - they lost their best and brightest, and the socialists took over.

Not to mention a LOT of the smart ones left a few hundred years ago...


11 posted on 01/31/2025 5:58:11 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: mewzilla

That people live in................


12 posted on 01/31/2025 5:58:31 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It gets mighty chilly up there in winter...particularly in Scotland.


13 posted on 01/31/2025 5:58:33 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Jonty30

“Liberals need to see bodies before they will ever believe they are wrong.”

The bodies have to be their own.


14 posted on 01/31/2025 5:59:00 AM PST by dljordan
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[RIP UK]

Boy,......ain’t that the truth.

Nearly every stupid idea....


15 posted on 01/31/2025 5:59:08 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Leaning Right

Nice heater - as long as you have ventilation


16 posted on 01/31/2025 6:00:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: larrytown

They need to go to their archives, find that letter we sent to one of their German kings named George and reread it for themselves.

Then take appropriate action.............


17 posted on 01/31/2025 6:00:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When the UK quits hating their own natural resources, we’ll know that the Muslims will have fully taken over and no longer see the white Brits as a threat.


18 posted on 01/31/2025 6:01:35 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Jonty30

and why, pray tell, would you think THAT would convince them? true ideologues only believe what their own ideology demand them to believe and no amount of attempting to convince them otherwise is possible. “a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” the honorable Mr. Clemmons


19 posted on 01/31/2025 6:02:29 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: Red Badger

If you can call that living.


20 posted on 01/31/2025 6:03:19 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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