Yearly Archives: 2016
Fracking threatens our remaining wild spaces.
Fracking requires thousands of miles of pipelines, roads, drilling pads and related infrastructure which is fragmenting ecosystems, while pollution and waste also pose a severe threat to wildlife. Media coverage here: http://www.mintpressnews.com/fracking-waste-poses-severe-threat-to-wildlife/168386/ 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 requires thousands of wells, pipelines, access roads, trucks, flaring, compressor stations, waste disposal plants, injection wells…
Fracking takes rural communities and turns them into industrial zones, with an unprecedented industrialization of the countryside now under way in the US, where a million more wells are expected over the next few decades and in places fracking is now pushing into the suburbs once rural areas become fully exploited Media coverage here: http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/12/04/welcome-gasland-denton-texas An […]
Fracking is a global threat. We need local resistance – everywhere!
Last week fracking company Rhino Oil and Gas Exploration South Africa officially announced its intention to explore almost 7,4 million hectares of land in South Africa. Latest media coverage here:http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/anti-fracking-lobby-slowly-gaining-momentum-in-kzn-20160223 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 […]
Lancashire fracking applications concede 20,000 trucks per site
Thousands of vehicle movements, flaring, diesel pumps running 24/7, fugitive emissions and leaks. How could fracking be anything other than a disaster for those that live closest to the industry? Latest media coverage here: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/24/fracking-traffic-would-increase-local-air-pollution-study-tankers-water-nitrogen-oxide-emissions Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Texas have all recorded massively increased air pollution as a result of fracking, including local concentrations […]
Underground Coal Gasification: Cluff extends Halliburton arrangement
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/122721/cluff-natural-resources-extends-halliburton-arrangement-122721.html http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/122721/cluff-natural-resources-extends-halliburton-arrangement-122721.html Cluff Natural Resources Track Record of Failure Cluff initially proposed an onshore UCG test in the Warwickshire countryside near Coventry in 2013. Fierce local opposition quickly halted the issuing of a licence. The company moved it’s plans just offshore to Fife in Scotland. They were greeted by halls full of angry Methil residents […]
Live in the North Notts/South Yorkshire area? This concerns you!
A survey organised by Misson parish council confirms that fracking company IGas has no social licence to operate in the area. Of 396 residents (76% of the parish population) who took the survey only 4% (14 people) were in favour. IGas have applied for a Mining Waste Permit, objections can be submitted until the 8th […]
Day 8 of Woodburn Forest Community Blockade, NI. Join the resistance!
InfraStrata plans to commence drilling beside a major Belfast water reservoir (North Woodburn Reservoir) with no Waste Management Plan in place. A movement of people is growing, reclaiming the forest and reclaiming their right to safe and clean drinking water. “Infrastrata have absolutely no social license to carry out their deep drilling in the forest, […]
Woodburn Forest Day 8 (Mon 22nd Feb)
Fracking company Infrastrata are trying to fell trees at the Woodburn Forest site. Dozens of police, security guards, and workers with chainsaws. They sneaked in through a small access track at the back of the site. More support needed.