Fracking Employment
From the Financial Times 16 October 2103
AMEC forecast just 15,900 to 24,300 nationwide - direct & indirect
Jobs would typically be short term, at between four and nine years
Only 17% of jobs so far have gone to local people
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Fracking Quotes
The US-based Energy Information Administration recently estimated (pre-BGS announcement) that it might be technically possible to extract about four per cent of the UK’s shale gas resource. Even that number doesn’t take economic, social or political factors into account, which could further reduce the amount it’s possible to get out.
— Robin Webster – Carbon Brief
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