Yearly Archives: 2015
What fracking really means for Pennsylvania’s forests.
Over 1.5 million acres of Pennsylvania’s State Forests are threatened by the fracking industry. With 673,000 acres directly available to oil and gas development. Staggaringl;y this is not just due to private interests owning mineral rights within forests, but the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has also opened upo land for drilling where […]
The Truth About Fracking Well Numbers
A local councillor in North Yorkshire says Third Energy showed him a diagram of ten horizontal boreholes leading from the well the company wants to frack for shale gas at Kirby Misperton. The company has confirmed that the diagram were conceptual. The handful of exploration wells being drilled in the UK right now are not […]
Swansea Council has ignored residents. Now the fight really begins.
Swansea Council’s planning committee unanimously approved the scheme by UK Methane for a site at Bryntywod, near Llangyfelach, South Wales. One of the main objections from locals was that the site is on the flood plain of the Afon Lan river. Live in the region? You are needed to join the campaign against unconventional oil and gas […]
Despite what the industry likes to say – fracking means massive industrialisation
Fracking infrastructure — complex and widespread — poses serious potential exposure risks to those living near it. Compressor stations are semi-permanent facilities that pollute the air 24 hours a day, as long as gas is flowing through the pipeline. The Medical Society of the State of New York and the American Medical Association have each […]
Interactive map of ALL Fracking sites across Britain & Ireland – It’s Organising Time
Do you live in or near a fracking licence or site? Want to find your nearest group? Want to know which company owns the fracking licence you live in? It’s all here in this interactive map: https://frack-off.org.uk/extreme-energy-fullscreen/ NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… Email info@frack-off.org if you want help setting […]
Fracking industry threatens to destroy one of the few remaining global wildernesses
The Botswana government has quietly sold the rights to frack for shale gas in one of Africa’s largest protected conservation areas, it has emerged. The Kgalagadi transfrontier park, which spans the border with South Africa, is an immense 3 6,000 sq km wilderness, home to gemsbok desert antelope, black-maned Kalahari lions and pygmy falcons. But […]
Latest research finds it’s now even harder to find out which fracking chemicals the industry is using
The fracking industry uses a wide variety of legal tricks, including trade-secret claims and non-disclosure agreements, to hide details of its activities, and particularly cases where it has harmed people, from regulators, the media, researchers and the general public Latest media coverage (and link to Journal article): http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/11/25/3725778/fracking-chemicals-who-knows/ More about secrecy within the fracking industry here. […]
Fracking & Life don’t mix. Who knew!?
The RSPB has warned that almost 300 of England’s most important wildlife sites are at risk from fracking after completing a full analysis of the areas of land that Government have offered to energy companies to explore for oil and gas. RSPB Article: http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.aspx?id=407155&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=News NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… […]