THE Cheshire Basin could generate enough energy in a year to provide every resident in the UK with a daily hot shower for the next 142 years, new research has claimed. The British Geological ...

More than 200 million years ago, the Cheshire Plain (or, more properly, geologically, the Cheshire Basin) was deep under the sea, where vast quantities of salt were laid down. When the seas retreated, ...

Council Leader Councillor Michael Jones said the projected supplies had taken the Council by surprise. He said: “We knew the Cheshire basin was plentiful but these projections show that there is ...

Article continues below The pipeline could also speed up the development of other gas storage facilities in the Cheshire basin, which is particularly geologically suitable for on shore gas storage.

"This whole area through the Cheshire basin and beyond - it goes across to Northern Ireland and further south - was a huge trapped sea that slowly evaporated, refilled and evaporated some 250 ...

"This whole area through the Cheshire basin and beyond - it goes across to Northern Ireland and further south - was a huge trapped sea that slowly evaporated, refilled and evaporated some 250 ...