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Blog 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 […]

News Press Release: Anti-fracking protesters plan to shut down an industry environmental summit.

E-mail: media@frack-off.org Phone: 07931195505 Twitter: @frack_off Website: www.frack-off.org Anti-fracking protesters plan to shut down £1500-a-ticket industry summit National anti-fracking network ‘Frack Off’ have called for the UK’s first mass action against fracking at a Shale Gas Environmental Summit. On Wednesday 2nd November at 3pm, protesters will meet outside the Copthorne Tara Hotel with gas masks, […]

Blog 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 […]

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

Blog 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 […]

Campaigners Tell Cuadrilla to Frack Off

News Campaigners Tell Cuadrilla to Frack Off

Anti-fracking group ‘Frack Off – London’ rallied outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) today where industry pioneers ‘Cuadrilla Resources’ were presenting of the results of their earthquake study. The campaigners staged a mock confrontation with ‘Cuadrilla professionals’ to protest against the dangers of fracking. Hydraulic Fracturing, or ‘fracking’ is a controversial method […]

News One third of new UK drilling licenses are for gas

Gas is the new black. Of 60 applications to drill onshore in the UK in the latest drilling round, 20 were for gas. Details of recent drilling licenses reveal one third of the applicants applied to drill for Coal Bed Methane, Shale gas and regular gas. To sort through this mess, the UK government divides […]

Blog How the frack does the oil and gas licensing system work?

To decide who drills where in the UK, the Department of Energy and Climate Change is divided into a network of blocks. Initial block licenses last for six years – enough time, according to DECC, for the developer to get planning permissions, work out the viability of the area. These Petroleum Exploration and Development Licenses […]

Blog Cuadrilla`s Three Casings Gambit

Anyone who has been exposed to much of Cuadrilla Resources‘ public relations campaign to persuade people that what they are doing is not very bad is likely to have come across some sort of variant of there might have been a few problems in the US but we use three casings on our wells so […]