AQA Geography Unit 4B Pre-release

what are cuadrilla doing to mitigate effects of
1-truck movements
2-flaring
3-the treatment of waste fluids from fracking
4-noise pollution
5- drilling?

Apparently this is a very likely question!
Also how are the farmers/landowners getting paid if cuadrilla frack on their land?

Thanks! Answers to these would be extremely helpful

There's a large section on page 13 of the pre-released material on this.

truck movements (caused the recent proposal rejection): they will build a g428m long access track to the well site - this will reduce traffic in the town centre and prevent the over use of unsuitable roads

treatment of waste fluids: liquids will be stored in temporarily on site an then processed and either removed for disposal (however unsure on methods) or are reused in the fracking process - no waste will be left untreated on the site so to prevent leakage into the soil/water table. They will also test the quality of the groundwater before/during and after fracking to monitor its effects

noise pollution: this is harder to combat.

drilling: they will install 88 seismometers to monitor any unusual seismic activity

I'm not sure on the rest but here's a start

Does anyone know what you could specifically write for the question: "Discuss how the physical and social geography of Lancashire makes this an ideal location to undertake fracking."

I've read the mark scheme but it offers nothing specific to the area and i'm struggling to find any research on the internet, particularly for the social aspect.

Does anyone have an idea of facts or statistics that may be relevent?

So for physical geography I think I would refer to figure P5 and explain how Lancashire is in the purple area ('both units perspective' showing that is has a good potential for lots of gas to be available. I would also talk about what you can see from the OS map - e.g. both proposed sites have motorways/a roads relatively near as well as them being rural areas - this could be linked to social by saying how fewer people will be impacted.

You could also talk about how the Fylde isn't a SSSI - a Telegraph Article from 2015 outlined that currently 6% of the proposed fracking sites in the UK are SSSI.

This is only how I would approach it though and there are probably loads of points i've missed!

Do we get given another Pre-Release Booklet when we are in the exam or do we take the one we were given in? Because our teacher told us to make notes on the one we were given...

would you be able to tell me what the questions are on zigzag paper as i havent been given it?
Please pm me
thanks

Hi, what could they ask in a fieldwork question and does anyone have any notes? Would be a massive help as we ran out of time in our class and have to do it on our own (and the exam is in 2 days..) Thanks a lot

I am particularly confused about flaring. What is it and what are cuadrilla doing to stop it?

Does anyone have much on the Mike Hill article or been able to work through it?

Thank you!