Yearly Archives: 2015
The Frack Stops Here 2 – LIVE UPDATES
Cuadrilla Resources fracking plans for Preston New Road have been REFUSED!!! – See the time-line to refusal below… This decision has implications for the whole of the UK and Ireland: Lancashire Fracking Showdown – The Beginning Of A Larger Battle Timeline 29th June – Webcast 11.21am – The application for wider seismic monitoring works has […]
Lancashire Fracking Showdown: The Beginning Of A Larger Battle
- Plans For Large New Lancashire Fracking Sites
- Council Considering Applications This Week
- Communities are mobilising to fight this threat
- If rejected will be appeal to central government
- Approval would just be beginning of long battle
- Would take 2 years to drill and frack the sites
- Cuadrilla gathering data to get more investment
- Level of community resistance will be decisive
- Communities blocking fracking across the globe
- Stakes are very high and not just for Lancashire
- Area where fracking pushed most aggressively
- Threat of thousands of wells across Lancashire
- Potentially tens of thousands across Britain
Upton Day 427 (Fri 5th Jun)
Camp at Upton (near Chester) which is occupying land where IGas want to site a frack pad.
Third Energy Submit Plan To Frack Well In Yorkshire
Fracking company Third Energy have submitted a planning application to Frack in Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire. This is no small deal – this application is for the most advanced fracking exploration to be attempted in the region. Object today! Live in the region? Join your nearest group pronto – and get organising! The Kirby Misperton […]
The Fracking industry permanently poisons billions of gallons of clean water each year
Fracking requires vast quantities of water, millions of gallons per well, which is stressing local water resources in areas like Texas, Colorado, Michigan and North Dakota, where farmers have been outbid for irrigation water and in some cases whole towns running dry. Referenced evidence of harm caused by volumes of water used by fracking industry: […]
Fracking companies run afoul of regulators on average 2½ times a day in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado
Fracking companies run afoul of regulators on average 2½ times a day in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado for accidents such as waste-water spills, well leaks, or pipeline ruptures said a report from The Natural Resources Defense Council. Media here. All UK applications and licences: https://frack-off.org.uk/extreme-energy-fullscreen/ See all UK community groups here: https://frack-off.org.uk/local-group-specific-pages/ New UK […]
In six years the fracking industry has wreaked havoc on pennsylvania’s water supplies
Pennsylvania’s fracking boom started in 2009. A new study published in The Journal of Environmental Science and Health shows data collected from resident’s well water pre-drill and post-drill. The results showed Chloride, sulfate, nitrate, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese and strontium were commonly found, with 25 households exceeding the secondary maximum contaminate level (SMCL) for manganese. […]
Hunters shot geese on Cuadrillas wildfowl refuge
Pink Footed Geese feeding on a wildfowl refuge set up by fracking company Cuadrilla were shot by hunters who had leased the same fields. Cuadrilla rented land on the Lancashire coast as winter grazing for birds displaced by its exploratory gas well at Becconsall, near Banks. However shooting rights on the land had already been […]