Expert pours cold water on UK fracking hopes, The price of gas is rising, but shale may not offer an answer

Expert pours cold water on fracking hopes, The price of gas is rising, but shale may not offer an answer by Nathan Coyne, February 27, 2013, politics.co.uk
Shale gas should not be seen as the answer to Britain’s energy production issues “anytime soon”, according to a leading academic. Professor Michael Bradshaw told a meeting of MPs and peers that the circumstances of the US shale gas revolution are not likely to be replicated in the UK and we will not know anything about its competitiveness for some time to come. … Professor Bradshaw, who has conducted research into the gas industry, said: “we really are a long way off knowing the competitiveness of UK shale”. He added: “It’s one thing to [drill for] it in Texas – it’s another to do it in the Weald of Kent.” … However, “the idea that this will make us energy independent is fanciful at the moment”.

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