Yearly Archives: 2016
INEOS Fracking Plans Threaten The Whole Of The UK
The push to frack the UK has reached a new intensity with 10 million acres made available to fracking companies. Not content with importing shale gas at great cost to U.S communities, Swiss-based petrochemical group Ineos now has the exclusive right to explore for hydrocarbons across 1 million acres of the East Midlands, Cheshire, Scotland […]
INEOS Fuel Fracked Gas Exports At U.S. Communities Expense
The U.S. fracking industry needs thousands of miles of new pipelines to export increasingly risky fracking products. The pipelines are being forced through communities using “eminent domain” laws (similar to compulsory purchase in the UK). A County Court Judge ordered Ellen Gerhart to allow tree clearing on about three acres of her property, her daughter […]
An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry…
Frack Free Northwich with the Frack Free Coalition are holding a series of public meetings next month. Live in the region? Want to help them advertise? They will be leafleting in Winnington on Saturday 30th April. Please meet outside Winnington Rec, CW8 4EB at 10am to collect leaflets and a map. It would be greatly […]
Water Company removes drinking water sources from main Belfast supply due to risk from oil & gas exploration
NI Water has closed two reservoirs in Carrickfergus amid fears of toxic contamination of the water supply to thousands of homes, the Belfast Daily can reveal. Media coverage: http://www.belfastdaily.co.uk/2016/04/26/exclusive-two-reservoirs-closed-amid-fears-of-toxic-contamination-over-drilling-at-woodburn-forest/#.Vx_vsNg8FDY.facebook Stop the Drill Campaigners said tonight that they are not surprised by NI Water’s move saying it has warned of the potential before drilling even started. […]
The East Midlands and the North East are under attack from fracking companies. Get informed and get organised where you live today!
IGas Energy plans to construct a shale gas exploration site off the A634 between Barnby Moor and Blyth. Initially IGas plans (PDF) to drill one well to core sample the shale, as well as a number of small monitoring boreholes in vicinity. French utility company GDF Suez has a 25 percent stake in IGas’s licence […]
“So much gas is bubbling through the river that it held a huge flame for over an hour”
So much methane is bubbling into a river surrounded by hundreds of fracking wells that it’s a fire hazard! Local campaigners blame the coal seam gas industry for the gas releases which are spreading along Queensland’s river Condamine and gaining in intensity. Media: http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2987602/australian_river_on_fire_with_fracked_coal_seam_gas.html An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. […]
The fight against fracking in North Yorkshire is heating up. Now is the time to get involved.
The scale of the threat of Shale Gas in Yorkshire should not be underestimated. Rathlin Energy and Third Energy, two conventional oil and gas companies, have drilled deep wells to explore the eastern side of the Bowland Shale. Both companies have used used stealth to pursue their fracking endeavours and both now have plans to […]
The fracking industry requires thousands of wells to survive. Each one a toxic nightmare.
New data from the National Pollution Inventory has exposed the increasingly large quantities of toxic compounds the coal seam gas industry is pumping into the atmosphere, as production ramps up around Australia. Media Coverage: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/19/coal-seam-gas-toxic-emissions-climb-production-ramps/ 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 […]