- Fracking trial has throw up many legal issues
- Licences don’t appear to allow for fracking
- Strategic environmental assessment not done
- Planning applications duplicitous and probably illegal
- Lack of environmental impact assessments
- No consultation at any stage of process
- In US changed law, in UK just ignoring it
- Government more concerned with PR than regulation
- Impossible to regulate even if there was anyone who wanted to
Category Archives: Blog
Fracking around with the law
Hydraulic fracturing on trial – live updates
Thanks to the good people at https://frackingontrial.org/ for these updates – live commentary on today’s proceedings. Three people are on trial charged with occupying a fracking rig in Lancashire, November 2011. Follow live on Twitter or visit https://frackingontrial.org/ 16.20 Court has finished for the day. We restart tomorrow at 10am. Thanks for all your support, […]
Guest blog: Paul Mobbs responds to Monbiot on peak oil vs. climate change
Paul Mobbs posted this gem on the “No Shale Gas UK” email list and we couldn’t resist asking him for permission to republish it here. Please note that sections in bold/italic are our emphasis. You can read George Monbiot’s original article that inspired this response here. I’ve sat patiently through the various emails between you […]
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 […]
Government Admits Fracking Will Not Solve Energy Crisis (But Will Push Ahead Anyway)
- Government admits no vast shale gas reserves
- May not even be economic to extract
- No plans to stop fracking however
- Even limited exploitation will require hundreds of wells
- CBM and UCG are a much larger threat
- Present system is unsustainable
Carbon capture and storage: Having your cake and burning it
- CCS is idea for sweeping carbon emissions under the rug
- Driven by psychological need for an easy solutions
- No evidence that it is actually practical
- Would require massive and complex system
- Combines multiple unproven processes
- CO2 unlikely to stay underground for long enough
- Could not stop global warming even if it worked
- Number of pilot projects recently cancelled
The fracking Czar – Lord John Browne
As 30% owner of UK fracker Cuadrilla, and with a seat in the heart of government, Lord John Browne is the UK’s fracking Czar. Indeed, John Browne is an extraordinarily powerful man. Notorious for his involvement in raising student tuition fees and as a twelve-year head of controversial oil company BP, Browne is now an […]
“People were lighting the streets on fire”: 25th anniversary of Coal Bed Methane evacuation
2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the forced evacuation of a small village in Wyoming, USA following Coal Bed Methane (CBM) operations nearby. “It’s just kind of strange driving by all those empty houses and knowing what they have been and were worth. We bought the first home out there. We’ve lost it all. Everything […]