Monthly Archives: September 2016
INEOS “A Corporate Agenda That Damages Communities Health”
The first boatload of gas from the U.S. fracking industry is expected to arrive at Grangemouth today. Ineos has a 15 year contract for the supply of shale gas with Range Resource. Range Resource have paid nearly $15 million in pollution fines in recent years. This included an $8.9 million fine which was the biggest […]
Protest Shuts Down Dakota Fracking Pipeline
On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline’s construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken shale fields to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the […]
Another New Study Links Fracking With Human Health Impacts
A group of U.S scientists have now published three studies evaluating birth outcomes, asthma exacerbations and symptoms (including nasal and sinus, fatigue and migraine headache). They studied over 8,000 mother-child pairs and 35,000 asthma patients. In the recent symptom study they obtained questionnaires from 7,847 patients about nasal, sinus and other health symptoms. These, together […]
Australia’s Second-Smallest State Bans Fracking
A permanent legislative ban later this year will protect Victorias reputation and agriculture sector which employs more than 190,000 people. But exemptions to the ban will remain for other types of activities that are not covered by the current moratorium, such as gas storage, carbon storage research and accessing offshore resources. Communities in Australia still […]
INEOS Fracking Seismic Survey Plans Need Resisting
Fracking company INEOS Upstream is planning to carry out a seismic surveys across the new licence areas it has been offered in the 14th licencing round. The areas it is targeting first are in South Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Continue reading
Oklahoma Hit By Largest Fracking Earthquake Since 2011
Latest, and one of the largest, fracking earthquakes in Oklahoma has cause damage to buildings and at least on injury. The state has been inundated with earthquakes caused by fracking waste injection wells in recent years. Continue reading
Fracking Pipelines Spread Resistance, And Threat, Beyond Drilling Areas
Resistance is building to fracking pipelines in the US, with the latest battle uniting native american communities and local farmers against a planned shale oil pipeline in the West. Other native tribes and people from across the country are supporting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose lands the pipeline would drive through. Continue reading