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Living with an Anti-fracking Camp – A Chester Resident`s Experience
The following guest-blog was written by Paul Beers. Paul is a resident of Upton, A suburb of Chester threatened by fracking company Dart Energy (recently bought by IGas Energy). Upton hosts a Community Protection Camp set-up on land that has all the required permissions for IGas to start work. The camp celebrated it’s 1 year […]
The Frack Stops Here – LIVE UPDATES
Live updates from The Frack Stop Here! in Preston, Lancashire: Weds, 9am: Hundreds of people from across Lancashire and beyond converge on County Hall in Preston Weds, 10am: Development control meeting begins with large numbers of people inside the chamber and more outside Weds, 11am: Development control committee has left the chamber so that they […]
Latest News From Community Blockade At Daneshill, Nottinghamshire
Day 1 (Thur 27th March) A protector has locked to the top of the gate to the Daneshill site. Two more are on top of a generator stopped in the road. Only a few loads managed to accessed the site very early this morning. A few local police and some police liaison officers have arrived. […]
Cuadrilla boss continues lobbying from inside government
Cuadrilla boss and government employee Lord John Browne has yet again met senior government officials to press the case for Cuadrilla Resources, recent documents show. Browne has repeatedly used his position within the Cabinet Office to press for advantages for the UK’s notorious fracker; most recently (so far as we know) pressing the case with […]
Knitting Nannas take on the unconventional gas industry
Love your Nannas? The Knitting Nannas against Gas have emerged as a brilliantly creative force against the unconventional gas industry. Now with their very own UK Chapter (based in Balcombe), Australian Nannas make their voices heard by knitting gracefully outside protest sites, at court appearances of those arrested – even at the offices of local […]
Cuadrilla boss in new lobbying scandal
It recently emerged that the man who runs fracking company Cuadrilla and who also works in government – Lord John Browne – lobbied Dept of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) chiefs four times in eight months last year. A Freedom of […]
Nigel Lawson deception: fracking contaminated water at 120 sites in Pennyslyania
Fracking apologist Nigel Lawson recently made some rash claims on BBC’s Radio 4’s Any Questions. Lawson claimed “there is not a single authenticated case of fracking causing water contamination in the US.” When opponents claimed that US wells had leaked gas and chemicals into groundwater, Lawson invited his opponents to “name them”. So we thought […]