Fracking is “highly unlikely” to be commercially viable in the UK unless the earthquake limit is raised substantially, according to the shale gas company that caused more than 30 small tremors in Lancashire last year. Cuadrilla admitted today that it had failed to complete the fracking of a well because it had repeatedly been forced to stop injecting sand and water into it after breaching the seismic limit. The company injected less than 14 per cent of the sand it had planned to use to prop open tiny fractures in the rock more than a mile below the site at Preston New Road near Blackpool. It was able to fracture properly only two out of 41 sections of the well. Francis Egan, Cuadrilla’s chief executive,…

Source: The Times February 06, 2019 12:11 UTC