Fragility of Fracking: Underground Coal Gasification Company Collapse

‘The announcement that underground coal gasification (UCG) company Five-Quarter Energy is being wound up, after 8 years of trying to raise money to set fire to coal seams under the coast of Northumberland, will be a welcome relief to anyone with any interest in the ecological or social fabric of these islands. Five-Quarter wanted to trial UCG on a scale never before attempted.

The ongoing disaster at Linc Energy’s small UCG test site at Chinchilla in Queensland, Australia, where a 175 square kilometre area has “sustained irreversible, widespread contamination”, is just the most recent example in a long track record of failure.’

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