Monthly Archives: November 2016
Legal Observer Training – Horsham Sat Nov 26th & York Sat Dec 3rd
Green and Black Cross and the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) are offering free legal observer training in preparation for the next wave of opposition to extreme energy extraction / fracking in the South East & Yorkshire. This is important training not just for anti-frackers and all campaigners are welcome. Legal observers are trained volunteers […]
When State & Corporate Interests Become Indistinguishable, Is Standing Rock A Taste of Things to Come?
Native American protesters are preparing to take a “last stand” against the Dakota Access pipeline after police raided their camps and arrested hundreds, paving the way for construction of the final stretch of a fracked-oil pipeline, read more… The pipeline is being built to transport 450,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken […]
Underground Coal Gasification Company Polluted 40,000 Hectares of Farmland
Hundreds of square kilometres of prime agricultural land has been contaminated by toxic chemicals and explosive gases that seeped from Linc Energy’s UCG trial site. If convicted, five Linc executives face up to five years in jail. The total maximum penalty against Linc Energy is $8,850,000 but the company has already folded owing $289,000,000! “The […]
Nottinghamshire Fracking Decision Resumes Tomorrow – Support Springs Road, Misson
IGas is attempting to get the first planning permission for fracking in Nottinghamshire. The company has already started work drilling up to 12 groundwater monitoring boreholes at the site. A survey organised by Misson parish council confirms that IGas has no social licence to operate. Of 396 residents (76% of the parish population) who took […]
#CommunityFightBack #Manchester – Get Organised Where You Live To Fight #Fracking
Fracking in Lancashire will impact across the UK. The fracking industries tentacles stretch across the country to source equipment, chemicals, frac sand and dispose of massive volumes of radioactive liquid waste. An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. Get our step-by-step guides and start planning an effective Anti-Fracking campaign where you […]
Fracking Sand Threat – Public Meetings in Cambridge and Norwich Tue & Wed
Frac sand mining, transportation and handling has caused significant ecological and health impacts for workers and communities living in the U.S. The industry chews up the countryside with open cast mines, contaminates water with run off, clogs roads with HGV traffic and pollutes the air with dangerous silica dust. Sibelco is the largest producer of […]
Community Fight Back Continues As Fracking Companies Squander Investors Cash
Representatives from anti-fracking groups across Lancashire gathered at a solidarity photo shoot on the Fylde Coast on Saturday, only a short distance from the Preston New Road site where Cuadrilla Resources is hoping to begin its Lancashire fracking tests. As the first part of an increased campaign of fracking awareness, Frack Free Lancashire are organising […]