Monthly Archives: October 2015
Fracking Company Rathlin Energy Kicked Out Of Ireland
Another one bites the dust! After years of tireless community campaigning in North Antrim on the North Coast of Ireland, fracking company Rathlin Energy (also active in East Yorkshire) have quit on their planning application and exploration licence!! Awesome work, once again proving community organising gets the goods! Media Coverage: Rathlin Energy blames Ballinlea borehole […]
Fracking Company IGas Trys To Intimidate Community In Upton
Fracking company IGas Energy has sent police and bailiffs to intimidate the community anti-fracking camp at Upton on the outskirts of Chester. The camp at Upton, is on a site where IGas has planning permission to drill a coalbed methane (CBM) exploration well. IGas’s planning permission expires in May 2016, if they do not start […]
Beleaguered fracking company looking to side-step Lancashire resdents…
Earlier this year fracking company Cuadrilla Resources came up against enormous community opposition in Lancashire and 2 of their flagship UK fracking projects were rejected by the County Council. This was a major blow the UK industry as a whole. Now the company are appealing those decisions… Four planning appeals linked to the fracking applications […]
Living in a gas-field is seriously bad for your health…
Expectant mothers who live near active natural gas wells operated by the fracking industry in Pennsylvania are at an increased risk of giving birth prematurely and for having high-risk pregnancies, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests. The findings, published online last week in the journal Epidemiology, shed light on some of […]
Underground Coal Gasification & Fracking – Not Welcome in Scotland or Anywhere Else!!!
Today!!! was a chance for communities everywhere to stand in Solidarity with Community groups from across Scotland. “Hands Over Our Forth” saw thousands of people join hands on the Forth Road Bridge, (connecting Edinburgh to Fife) letting the Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Fracking industry know they are not welcome in Scotland or anywhere else!!! […]
Upton Day 553 (Mon 9th Oct)
Local people have blockaded vehicles belonging to seismic testing company who laying explosive charges to commence seismic testing in the area.
From Alaska To New Zealand – UCG Solidarity Demo
Sunday the 11th October is a chance for communities everywhere to stand in Solidarity with Community groups from across Scotland. “Hands Over Our Forth” will see thousands of people join hands on the Forth Road Bridge to show their commitment to stop Underground Coal Gasificaton (UCG) projects planned for the Firth of Forth. Join The […]
There is a proven link between fracking & earthquakes…
Fracking, and particularly the injection of fracking waste into disposal wells, is resulting in a massive increase in earthquakes in the US, including swarms of hundreds or thousands around individual wells, with the largest earthquake a magnitude 5.7 in Oklahoma which caused significant damage and injuries. Article referenced in graphic: http://m.tulsaworld.com/earthquakes/another-quake-near-cushing-knocks-out-power-state-regulators-add/article_c0bcbb84-c903-5073-8673-bafc10afead7.html?mode=jqm More on the relationship between […]