Author Archives: John Gray
Guest Blog by Greg Palast: Fracking the Facts – Ireland isn’t ready
On the 20th of April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oilrig blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven men instantly, then destroying 600 miles of coastline.On 9 September 2010, a natural gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, California, burning eight to death, one of several recent pipeline explosions in the USA. In 1992, in […]
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Frack Free Somerset Launches!
NEW COALITION OF GROUPS FOR A FRACK FREE SOMERSET On Sunday 13th May, members of various sustainability groups in Somerset came together over a convivial lunch in Frome to form a coalition aimed at coordinating county-wide opposition to hydraulic fracturing, an extreme energy source, which involves drilling deep into the ground to extract shale gas. […]
GUEST BLOG: North Lanarkshire Community Scare Off Coal-Bed Methane Application
Reach CSG Ltd submitted a planning application on 23/11/11 on the grounds of Devro Ltd ,Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire to erect a facility for the Exploration of CBM. The application basically stated that their intention was to drill one borehole to a depth of 1000m, case the borehole to a depth of 100m and monitor the […]
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Climate Rush Bristol Launch!
Join us – stir your climate passion, discover your local battlegrounds and form a community willing to stand up to an oil-run world. The climate change movement needs your inspiration. We need to create smart, gorgeous and radical ideas, we need to push things faster, we need to choose our climate change battles and we need […]
Biofuelwatch Guest Blog: From palm oil power stations to mega-wood burners – Extreme Bio-Energy in the UK
Wood- and other biomass burning might not come to most people’s mind when thinking about extreme energy, such as fracking, methane hydrate mining, tar sands and other innovations in destroying nature and the atmosphere faster than ever. Biomass, after all, was the main energy source for most of human history and remains so amongst so […]
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When The Vale Says ‘No’, They Mean No.
Good news in Wales last night, as the Vale of Glamorgan council deferred on a planning application for a test well, after 50 protesters rallied outside the meeting. The campaign there ‘The Vale says No’ have been putting a load of pressure on the council – and it seems to be doing the trick… for […]
This Tuesday Tell the Industry to Frack Off!
Anti-Frackers, This Monday and Tuesday, industry experts will be holding a conference in London to discuss new shale gas projects and market (wretch) opportunities. The conference is called Unconventional Gas, Global Opportunities and will be held at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury. This event is screaming out for some counter-propaganda. The green-wash that will be […]
Ribble Estuary Against Fracking
So the first FrackOff! team up in Lancs have got the ball rolling rolling rolling… lots of flyers in letterboxes, conversations on doorsteps and posters across villages all around the 5 different fracking sites. Concentrating on Banks – where the drill is drilling at the moment – we spent time helping with a public meeting […]
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