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Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person ... by youngtaff on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:36PM (#50079178)
The North Sea is a mature basin and there isn't that much gas left in the UK sectors
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Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person ... by throwaway473825 on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:06PM (#50079570)
If there's little left, why does it need to be banned? This is like the German argument against nuclear - it's supposedly expensive, and yet it needs to be banned because otherwise there would be plenty of it.
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Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person ... by teamonkey on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:03PM (#50080189)
It isn’t banned.

Well, fracking kind of is, we stopped after we tried it and it caused ground tremors.

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Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person ... by youngtaff on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:38AM (#50084844)
AFAIK we use fracking type techniques in the North Sea

Part of the problem with fracking on mainland UK is not just the tremors but that there’s also not much proven gas either

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