RE: Court23 Nov 2016 10:34
"The report used information from Third Energy that emissions from KM8 would be from vehicles visiting the site, equipment and fugitive methane from the well. The emissions would amount to 2,602 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e). This, the council said, represented a contribution to UK greenhouse gas emissions of only 0.00014% on 2013 levels."
The 0.00014% of uk emissions is not a SEVERE impact.
And that should be ballanced against the reduction of co2 from coal making a net improvement.
Coal still stands at 26% of use in electrisity generation (2014 data)