St Cuthbert's School used to stand on the site of the borehole in the 1920s.
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Rathlin Energy have confirmed that they intend to drill a second exploratory borehole at Ballinlea near Ballycastle.
Alkane Energy, based in Edwinstowe, wants to extract gas at the old Gedling colliery using a borehole.
Borehole disposal was proposed in the 1980s but rejected because the technology didn't exist to dig that deep.
Fracking involves drilling a borehole before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas.
Funny thing is, for the last 20 years, there's been a pretty good solution for burying nuclear waste: deep borehole disposal.
Transocean engineers wanted to keep the pressure in the borehole under control with heavy mud while Halliburton set the cement plugs.
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The Environment Agency has confirmed to the Welsh Assembly's agriculture committee that a borehole on the Eppynt has been contminated with run-in from the disposal pit.
Local residents were invited to an open house event at the site of the original borehole to meet with executives from Rathlin Energy and discuss any concerns they had with them.
Coastal Oil and Gas was last year granted planning permission to dig a borehole to test for gas below farmland in Kent in what has been described as a similar scheme.
In December, Cuadrilla said it had no intention "at the moment" of drilling to the area south of the village, where it now has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
Cuadrilla insists the process is safe, but says it has no intention "at the moment" of drilling in the area south of the village, where it has permission to drill a borehole for oil and gas exploration.
The tests will continue for at least 48 hours, during which time engineers will carefully watch the pressure building up in the well to make sure the damaged borehole can hold it in without a new leak popping open somewhere else.
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