A well originally drilled for fracking operations in Kirby Misperton, England, is now being repurposed to generate clean geothermal energy. The site, previously the focus of protests against shale gas extraction, is now set to provide hot water to local homes within the next two years.
An underground well drilled in preparation for a controversial fracking operation is now being used to create clean, green geothermal energy . The site in Kirby Misperton was at the center of a long-running protest in 2016, after Third Energy was given permission to extract shale gas.
However, after the project failed to get consent from the government, the company was taken over by CeraPhi who now hope to use the Earth's natural heat to provide hot water to homes in the village within the next two years. Villages who once barricaded the gates to the site said the chance to create 'something really good out of something so disruptive' was 'amazing'. Following news of the fracking ban in 2019, the CeraPhi Geothermal Development Company set one of its staff the task of finding a use for the land, including the 3,000-meter deep well. 'At that depth, the water is naturally very hot, and so I looked at it and I thought if we've got hot water available on tap we should be using it,' said Russell Hoare. Protesters Sue Gough and Jackie Cray were among the residents to visit the site to learn more about the proposals. 'Because I wear a dog collar I wasn't prepared to break the law, but I went to the limits of what I felt that I could do,' retired vicar Ms Cray told 'It's like something really good has come out of something that was so disruptive.
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