UK is 55 million years too late for fracking to work, says expert

UK is 55 million years too late for fracking to work, says expert

Fracking protest

The geology of the UK is unsuitable for fracking and the opportunity of the new energy source has been “overhyped”, a geoscience expert has claimed.

Professor John Underhill, chief scientist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, suggested the UK is “55 million years too late” for the gas extraction technique to work.

He said reservoirs of shale gas had been damaged by seismic activity 55 million years ago, causing some of the deposits to escape.

How shale gas is extracted using the controversial fracking method

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