Yearly Archives: 2016
Radioactive Fracking Waste Poses A Threat On Roads To Leeds
Frack Free Leeds invite you to join a campaign to stop Knostrop, a waste water treatment works in Leeds, from accepting radioactive flowback fluid produced from shale exploration and hydraulic fracturing. North Yorks County Council have just given the go ahead for Third Energy to frack in Yorkshire and they will need somewhere to dispose […]
Ineos Fracking Plans Threaten The Whole Of The UK – Cleveland Basin!!!
The first new Fracking Licences since 2008 have been quietly issued to fracking wannabes Ineos. 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 & Yorkshire. They let slip […]
Linc Energy Face Criminal Charges For Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Disaster
The Queensland Environment Department has brought criminal charges against Linc Energy over serious environmental harm allegedly caused by its plant at Chinchilla west of Brisbane. Linc Energy is accused of polluting up to 320 square kilometres of prime agricultural land with toxic and explosive gases after. “Linc Energy’s underground coal gasification plant in Queensland was […]
Join The Residents Of Formby, Halsall & Haskayne – Aurora Protest March Tomorrow
All residents in the seismic survey area please support our peaceful march tomorrow. Meeting in Station Road, Barton at 11 am. Event details… Aurora Energy Resources are trying to carry out 3D seismic surveying. Landowners are being bullied into allowing these test to take place on their land, as refusing access would result in high court action, […]
Anti-shale-oil Protesters Arrested for Blocking “Bomb Trains” in Washington State
Over 100 people stopped rail traffic by forming a human blockade across the tracks. Police arrested 21 people who refused to vacate the tracks. The action had been called to highlight the massive rise in oil train activity in the Pacific Northwest. This action followed a Union Pacific train carrying Bakken crude that derailed in Mosier, […]
U.S. States Struggle To Deal With Radioactive Fracking Waste
The rise of hydraulic fracturing over the past decade has created a boom, but not the one you think. Tons of radioactive materials experts call an “orphan” waste stream. No federal agency fully regulates these oil and gas drilling by products — which include brine, sludge, rock and soiled equipment — leaving tracking and handling […]
IGas More Delays for Fracking Plans in Nottinghamshire
IGas’s plan to explore for shale gas at a site at Misson in north Nottinghamshire now looks unlikely to be decided next month. Councillors had been expected to decide by the end of July on the application for two exploratory boreholes at a former Cold War missile site off Springs Road. But Nottinghamshire County Council […]
Volatile Organic Compounds Found “In The Bodies Of People” Who Live and Work Fracking Areas
Environmental health groups and community members from Pavillion, Wyoming released the first study of its kind linking chemicals released from gas and oil production sites to those in bodies of residents living near the wells. This report is the first to track air pollutants from the gas wells in the residents themselves. Scientists focused on […]