Yearly Archives: 2016
Desperate Times For Infrastrata As Antrim Community Celebrate
Celebrating in Woodburn Forest today. A very special thank you to the team who made today happen. A perfect day. Watch the video… Website: www.stopthedrillcampaign.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DontDrillAntrimWater/ Twitter: @stopthedrill 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 live here… See […]
Fracking Company IGas Threaten 2 Sites In Nottinghamshire
Fracking company IGas Energy Ltd have submitted another planning application to explore for shale gas in Nottinghamshire. They now have 2 live planning applications for sites at Tinkers Lane near Blyth, and Springs Road near Misson. The Misson site also has a live EA Mining Waste Permit Application. Both of these applications stop short of […]
Company that drilled Horse Hill site looking to expand in region…
Fracking company UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) announced a few days ago that it had just done a deal with Celtique Energie and Magellan to acquire 100% of PEDL234. This gives it control of a site with planning permission and permits at Broadford Bridge. UKOG have a large stake in the Horse Hill well […]
It’s all over for Infrastrata in Woodburn Forest N.Ireland
Comment from Don’t Drill Antrim Water: Great joy in Woodburn Forest last night. It is clear that Infrastrata plan to abandon very quickly. Today we are calling for NIEA monitors to enter the site and to oversee the completion. Can you help us? Call 0300 200 7852 and insist that NIEA come on site now. […]
Ineos’ toxic fracking waste solution? Dump it it the ocean…
In an email sent in March to a resident in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, where councillors gave the go-ahead to a fracking application by another company in May, a senior executive said that water produced during fracking could be discharged in the sea after being treated. It has not previously said where treated water would […]
Want to do something about the fracking threat? Live in or around York? This meeting is for you!
City-based organising to support those fighting the fracking threat in North Yorkshire and elsewhere – lots to do, lots of possibilities! Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/214603158932889/ 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 live here… See a map of all […]
When the fracking industry arrives, air pollution is an immediate threat…
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Texas have all recorded massively increased air pollution as a result of fracking, including local concentrations of toxic hydrocarbons fumes as well as region-wide ozone pollution, with residents suffering headaches, sore throats, nosebleeds, dizziness and breathing difficulties… More on air pollution and fracking: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#air The Study: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010004.full An organised community […]
Flooding and fracking don’t mix…
Flooding has inundated a number of AGL’s coal seam gas wells near the swollen Nepean River, and sent two tanks containing CSG waste water adrift. AGL, though, said gas bubbles surfacing near one flooded well site were not methane leaks, disputing concerns raised by anti-CSG activists. The floods have covered “a number” of AGL’s CSG wells in the region, including at Menangle Park […]