Yearly Archives: 2016
Fracking company knocked back again in North Yorkshire. Time to join the fight!
North Yorkshire is under threat form the fracking industry. Join the growing community resistance today. Join an existing local group or start one where you live! Object to Third Energy’s live planning application & Environment Agency permits to FRACK at their existing site in Kirby Misperton. Objection guidance from Frack Free Ryedale here: https://frackfreeryedale.org/km8/ Latest media coverage: https://www.energylivenews.com/2016/01/18/north-yorkshire-fracking-decision-delayed-again/ […]
Now is the time for action. The fight to defend south wales from fracking is on!
Despite huge opposition from RESIDENTS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS Natural Resources Wales has seen fit to issue an Environmental Permit to UK Methane for the site at Foel Fynyddau Forest, Pontrhydyfen. UK Methane now only need approval from the Health & Safety Executive and final go ahead from DECC in order to commence test drilling for […]
You can’t have fracking without blowouts, spills and explosions
Fatalities among oil and gas workers have climbed to the highest level since records began in the US, amid a catalogue of explosions, well blowouts and spills at fracking sites across the US, Canada and Australia Latest media coverage: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-coleman/fracking-blowout-in-texas_b_7561868.html?utm_hp_ref=green More on fracking blowouts: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#blowouts NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… […]
A fracking earthquake-a-day has led to industry shut down in Alberta, CAN
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. Latest media coverage: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/17/world/alberta-feels-quakes-almost-daily-energy-companies-extract-oil-fracking-method/#.Vp5SWB8o6R0 More on the link between fracking and earthquakes: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#earthquakes NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… Email […]
LINC Energy accused of causing contamination that is irreversible
Linc Energy “misled” regulators and the public about the extent of cancer-causing gas leaks at its Queensland test site in order to raise capital and convince the state government its technology was safe, a court has heard. The company is defending five charges of wilful, reckless and irreversible environmental harm caused by its underground coal […]
Frack-test to take place in Surrey
In a recent announcement in the industry press, a host of companies interested in fracking prospects operating under the name Horse Hill Development** announced a work-over’ rig will be returning to the Horse Hill Site, near Horley to conduct 30 days of testing. The geological data gathered during these tests will be invaluable to the […]
Proposal to hold all fracking companies liable for earthquakes
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. Latest media coverage: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/10/fracking-earthquakes-oklahoma-colorado-gas-companies More on the link between fracking and earthquakes: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#earthquakes NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… Email […]
Cluff Natural Resources Target England & Wales With Toxic UCG
Cluff Natural Resources are desperately trying to talk up their position, despite another year burning through investment capital with nothing to show for it. In an attempt to reassure investors that their proposals for experimental Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) projects can be a success, they have abandoned plans to burn coal under the Firth of […]