Yearly Archives: 2015
Fracking Companies Self-Regulate – UK Onshore Regulation Capacity Is Minimal
Claims that UK regulators know what they are doing, understand fracking or have the capacity to monitor 100’s of fracking sites are ridiculous. The UK has limited experience with onshore oil & gas drilling with only about 20 conventional oil and gas wells drilled onshore each year. Offshore, 10,000 wells have been drilled in the […]
U.S. Industrial Production Figures Inflated By Fracking!!!
The much touted renaissance in U.S. industrial production does not stand up to scrutiny. The rate of growth in U.S. manufacturing is slumping and non-energy balance of trade is deep in the red. The fracking bubble has been used to bump up the figures and justify itself. When people think of industrial production, they generally […]
Fracking company IGas announce ANOTHER site in Nottinghamshire…
Fracking company IGas Energy Ltd have previously submitted scoping reports to Nottinghamshire County Council in preparation for attempts to extract shale gas from below the North Bassetlaw village of Misson. NOW the company have formally registered their intent to proceed with an application process to drill at Tinker Lane, on the A634 between Barnby Moor and […]
Upton Day 567 (Fri 23rd Oct)
IGas have sent in the bailiffs and police to nail up a notice that they have acquired a 30 year lease to the site. Likely prelude to starting eviction proceedings. See Fracking Company IGas Trys To Intimidate Community In Upton for more details.
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 […]