Yearly Archives: 2016
Lancashire Fracking Tests are a threat to us all. It’s organising time!
These planning applications were rejected by Lancashire County Council and are vehemently opposed by the community. Now is the time to start planning for long-term, organised, effective community resistance. Find out more about Cuadrillas plans: NEW LANCASHIRE THREAT: CUADRILLA`S FRACKING PLANS An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. Get our step-by-step […]
less than 2 months after Upton Site abandoned, IGas are back on the scene…
Land Registry documents show a subsidiary of the organisation called Star Energy paid £141,000 for the site at the junction of Warrington Road and Ince Lane in Bridge Trafford. The news comes less than two months after IGas announced it had abandoned plans to drill for coal bed methane gas at both Duttons Lane in […]
Each and every fracking well produces millions of gallons of waste… it’s all toxic.
The quantities of toxic and radioactive waste being produced by fracking, are overwhelming the limited capacity of treatment plants, which cannot remove all contaminants in any case, and combined with spilling and dumping is contaminating land, waterways and groundwater. Latest research: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041008X15300375 Read more about fracking waste here: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#waste Read more about the stages of fracking here… […]
Coastal Oil & Gas drop Llanharan site in face of Community Pressure!
Coastal Oil and Gas has dropped its challenge over plans to drill for unconventional gas at Llanharan in south Wales. It plans to look for another site in the area. The company informed the Planning Inspectorate at lunchtime yesterday (30th March 2016) that it was withdrawing its appeal against the refusal of plans to explore […]
Government sold 122,000 square kilometres of Brazilian Amazon…
A judge has recognized the right to land of uncontacted indigenous peoples in the Amazon‘s Juruá Valley. The Brazilian government sold off protected areas adjacent to their ancestral territories at an auction, in order for oil and gas companies to conduct resource exploration including for [ http://www.lifegate.com/people/lifestyle/fracking-hydraulic-fracturing ]fracking. Media Coverage: http://snddenjpic.org/2016/03/14/brazil-does-a-u-turn-on-fracking-indigenous-lands-protected-from-oil-and-gas-exploration/ An organised community is […]
U.S. Geological Survey publishes fracking hazard map
Fracking, and particularly the injection of fracking waste into disposal wells, is resulting in a massive increase in earthquakes in the US, including swarms of hundreds or thousands around individual wells. Media Coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/28/new-seismic-hazard-map-includes-fracking-related-quakes-for-the-first-time/ An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. Get our step-by-step guides and start planning an effective Anti-Fracking […]
Newcastle University: fracking will increase air pollution levels by 30%.
The study, which was published in the journal Environment International, also predicted that the industry could cause permanent damage to rural roadways and cause nearby residents distress in the form of excessive noise pollution. The disadvantages uncovered by the study mainly stemmed from the increased traffic on rural roads. Media Coverage: http://www.pollutionsolutions-online.com/news/air-clean-up/16/breaking_news/new_study_finds_fracking_would_exacerbate_local_air_pollution/38290/ An organised community […]
“I don’t want anyone else going through the same stress, hurt and worry…”
Paul Hickson says he does not want other farmers to go through the three years of stress and worry he has endured after he agreed to give an energy company three years in which to look for gas under his field. Now the licence has expired the farmer says he will not be renewing it. […]