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Notorious gas driller moves to Scotland
…Sydney residents protest against Dart Energy drilling inside city limits. Dart has plans for up to twenty wells in the UK. Notorious gas driller Dart Energy has applied to drill a third well at its site near Airth, Scotland. Dart, whose plans to drill in central Sydney Australia led 20,000 people to oppose it, has been quietly developing a Scottish site since 2011. Dart is a specialist in Coal Bed Methane (or Coal Seam Gas as it is known in Austr… Continue reading
Dart shareholder hired hitman, broke sanctions & paid Tories £550,000
…rival. The company planning 22 Scottish coal bed methane gas wells – Dart Energy – has a dark secret. One of the company’s owners – Bob Finch- paid a Serbian war criminal $1m to enforce a business deal in 2001. In 2001 Finch travelled to Serbia an hired a notorious Serb hitman – Arkan – to intimidate a businessman with whom Finch had a deal to sell oil. After the deal soured, a court ordered Finch to pay the bus… Continue reading
Huge gas plans for Airth: 100 wells, compulsory purchase orders and fracking not ruled out
…as they went. The angry scenes are part of a growing body of resistance to Dart’s plans. Over 500 people have objected to Dart’s planning application for 22 new wells near the village; as well as Network Rail. The issue has been receiving widespread coverage in the national press and on TV. The drillers revelation demonstrate the truth of what local residents have been saying for many months. Unconventional gas extraction – such… Continue reading
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) let Australian gas driller self regulate!
…ion of the water SEPA freely admit that the only testing carried out is by Dart. Dart say that the water is treated onsite before it is discharged into the Firth of Forth via their consented discharge point inherited from Hillfarm Coal Co Limited. This permission dates back to 1997. Dart inherited their permissions to abstract and dump water from Composite Energy, the company that previously owned the sites before new regulations came into force s… Continue reading
Farndon Community Fracking Blockade
…xham, Wales Local Groups: Frack Free Farndon (Facebook), Frack Free Dee (Facebook) For Updates See: Latest Farndon News In Spring 2014 Dart Energy drilled a coal bed methane (CBM) exploration well at their fracking site in Farndon, Cheshire. The local community, which is massively opposed to Dart’s plans, mobilised to resist Dart’s plans. A camp was set up outside the site. See Dart Frack Attack: New Midlands Multi-Well Program for mor… Continue reading
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Coal Bed Methane: The Evil Twin of Shale Gas
…d), Greenpark Energy (Yorkshire and Scotland) which was recently bought by Dart Energy, IGas Energy (Cheshire) and UK Methane (South Wales). In particular IGas Energy and Dart Energy (who bought out the the previous company Composite Energy) are already producing gas on a small scale. IGas has a well at Doe Green near Warrington that is producing gas to generate electricity. Their CEO, Andrew Austin, admitted to a parliamentary select committee in… Continue reading
Dart Energy
A subsidiary of AIM listed company IGas Energy trying to exploit Coal Bed Methane (CBM) and Shale Gas in Cheshire, East Midlands and Scotland after buying Composite Energy and Greenpark Energy in 2011/2012. French utility firm GDF Suez is investing £24 million to help Dart explore for CBM/shale gas in England. Continue reading
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Newsletter October 2012
…7;s bid to destroy this area of Scotland: Falkirk: tinyurl.com/falkirk-app-dart Stirling: tinyurl.com/stirling-app-dart For more information on the Airth development go to: https://frack-off.org.uk/frack-attack-application-for-britains-first-unconventional-gas-development In other bad news for the area, the Coal Authority (part of the Department of Energy and Climate Change) are busy trying to sell off another Underground Coal Gasification licence… Continue reading
