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Fracking lobbyists forged letters and posed as students

Many thanks to Powerbase for much of the source material for this post. Fracking lobbyists PPS Group are often to be found desperately spinning the frackers’ message. Yet the handsome offices of the Mayfair-based PPS belie a dark underside – the company has regularly been accused of using underhand tactics to mislead the public. On […]

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Fracking lobbyists shows the truth of the Occupy movement

For those who ask: ‘what are the Occupy protests about?’ oil and gas lobbyists are a great example of the business elite’s hidden power inside government. Take the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). To get around public anger, the company behind the UK’s first fracking project, Cuadrilla, generate behind-the-scenes political support through Guildford District […]

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Blind Panic, Vested Interests and Asset Stripping…

Leaving aside all of the ecological, environmental, geological and pollution concerns. The blasting of water, sand and corrosive chemicals deep into the ground to crack the bed-rock. The risk of poisoning tapwater, causing earthquakes and releasing more greenhouse gases than coal. Leaving aside all of that there are three main problems with Hydraulic Fracturing. It’s […]

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Communities resisting fossil fuel extraction

While fossil fuel use trashes our planet and threatens our future, communities local to extraction sites suffer the health effects of extraction: Recent studies have shown high rates of asthma, certain cancers and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in communities near opencast coal mines, who suffer from exposure to dust and machinery diesel fumes.  The effects […]

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Fracking with our food supply

Fracking may create a few jobs in the energy industry, but it will also put farmers’ and growers’ livelihoods at risk: “Walking through the village of Hesketh Bank in West Lancashire, you can see why the residents are so proud of this green belt area. At the village’s busy agricultural show people repeatedly emphasised how […]

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Fracking DOES cause earthquakes – a battle won in a wider war

Today’s announcement that UK fracker Cuadrilla caused earthquakes at the site of its two test wells is a victory for all fracking activists. Today’s British Geological Survey confirms what activists have been saying for months. Cuadrilla are putting together a report as to how they will avoid causing earthquakes when they drill. In reality their […]

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Frack Off (London) put pressure on in the big city

Frack Off (London) put pressure on in the big city

So. Today our friends from Cuadrilla had a meeting with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). They were there to present the results of their ‘earthquake study’ into their geomechanical operations, and report on how they plan to minimise the possibility of earthquakes.   Note, by the way, that I call it ‘their’ earthquake […]

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