The Strategic Environmental Assessment for shale gas exploration has given us four possible fracking futures:
- No shale exploration
- Exploration, but no economically viable gas
- About 5-trillion cubic feet of gas, which would be enough for one 1,000MW power station
- About 20-trillion cubic feet of gas, which could power two 2,000MW power stations and a gas-to-liquid plant.
You can read about them more in-depth here.