Yearly Archives: 2016
Companies provide bottled water when they destroy water sources. What happens when you can’t breathe the air?
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 Fracking has led to giant compressor stations, drilling rigs and huge flares in […]
200+ anti-fracking groups in the UK. Join or start one today!
When communities threatened by fracking get organised to resist this invasion, they have a massive effect. Stopping any single well can be very difficult, especially with the whole weight of the state behind the fracking industry. However, in the long-term, massive investment will be required to make fracking a reality. Such investment will not be […]
Linc Energy accused of “wilfully causing serious harm”…
The death of up to 1000 pigs has been blamed on pollution associated with controversial gas mining, in a submission to a Senate inquiry into regulation of the coal seam gas industry. The claims, backed by graphic photographs, were made as part of a 90-page submission by the family of George Bender, who committed suicide […]
Fracking companies now own licenses across Yorkshire. Join the fight today!
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 […]
Shale gas and coal bed methane extraction both contaminate water supplies
AN independent report commissioned by the Coal Seam Gas Compliance Unit has for the first time revealed that it is possible for gas from CSG development to compromise water bores, despite there being no decline in a bore’s water level. The report was prepared by independent hydrologists Klohn Crippen Berger after the Departmentof Natural Resources’ […]
Study raises safety concerns for the country’s 36,000 fracking disposal sites.
A new study from the University of Missouri (MU) has reported high levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the surface water near a fracking wastewater disposal facility in West Virginia, raising concerns if similar cases are occurring nationwide given the country’s 36,000 fracking disposal sites. Media: http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/06/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-fracking/ An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. […]
It’s not just waste-water injection causing earthquakes…
New research suggests that hydraulic fracking of oil and gas wells is behind earthquakes caused by humans in Western Canada. A study, published Tuesday by a group of top Canadian researchers, says problems in Alberta and British Columbia aren’t being caused by injecting waste water underground. It’s a major step in understanding seismic events that […]
Thousands of wells, millions of gallons of toxic fluid per well – what could go wrong?
Wyoming and Pavillion have a history of drinking water contamination cases going back over two decades. Media: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/1/1508986/-Stanford-scientists-find-that-fracking-has-clear-impact-on-drinking-water-in-Wyoming The Standford Study: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b04970 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 current UK […]