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Frackers Close To Getting Their Hands On 60% Of UK

Blog Frackers Close To Getting Their Hands On 60% Of UK

  • Government pushing new licensing round
  • Give away of 60% of UK to fracking companies
  • Justified by strategic environmental assessment
  • Report written by fracking consultants, AMEC
  • Public consultation on report ends 28th March
  • New fracking give away could begin soon after
  • Report ignores massive scale and intensity
  • Focuses just on shale gas, ignores CBM threat
  • Completely ignores a large number of impacts
  • Assumes someone else will deal with issues
  • Ignores evidence from US, Canada & Australia
  • Assumes things will somehow be different here
  • Overlooks the radically new nature of fracking

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GUEST BLOG: "I am sorry Ecotricity, but shopping will not save the world"

Blog GUEST BLOG: “I am sorry Ecotricity, but shopping will not save the world”

This is a personal response from a Somerset resident and member of Frack Free Somerset to Ecotricity’s offer of financial help in return for advertising space. I love this campaign. With all my heart. Since February 2012 when I first heard about unconventional gas and a new wave of industrialisation that threatened the land that […]