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#CommunityFightBack #Manchester – Get Organised Where You Live To Fight #Fracking
Fracking in Lancashire will impact across the UK. The fracking industries tentacles stretch across the country to source equipment, chemicals, frac sand and dispose of massive volumes of radioactive liquid waste. An organised community is THE best defence against the Fracking industry. Get our step-by-step guides and start planning an effective Anti-Fracking campaign where you […]
Fracking Sand Threat – Public Meetings in Cambridge and Norwich Tue & Wed
Frac sand mining, transportation and handling has caused significant ecological and health impacts for workers and communities living in the U.S. The industry chews up the countryside with open cast mines, contaminates water with run off, clogs roads with HGV traffic and pollutes the air with dangerous silica dust. Sibelco is the largest producer of […]
Community Fight Back Continues As Fracking Companies Squander Investors Cash
Representatives from anti-fracking groups across Lancashire gathered at a solidarity photo shoot on the Fylde Coast on Saturday, only a short distance from the Preston New Road site where Cuadrilla Resources is hoping to begin its Lancashire fracking tests. As the first part of an increased campaign of fracking awareness, Frack Free Lancashire are organising […]
Communities Across The UK Threatened By Fracking – Together We Can Beat It!
Whether you live near a fracking site, near a toxic support site, on a transport route or in a licence area, organised community action means we can beat the fracking threat together. Use the map to get informed, find people you can work with and support communities across the UK. The map has been updated […]
Stop Barclays Fracking – 23 DEMO’s Tomorrow!!! Check For Details
And who owns Third Energy? Barclays Bank!!! While Third Energy’s business model is to ‘frack, frack, frack’, as an investor, Barclays has a few more options and is much more sensitive to bad PR. Spooking investors and taking away a key pillar of financial support would be devastating to the fracking industry already plagued with […]
Massive National Anti-Fracking Demo Tomorrow!!! – Saturday 12th Nov
Massive NATIONAL Anti-Fracking Solidarity Demo. We need to show the government and the fracking industry just how strong the opposition is in our wonderful cities and countryside. Groups from all over England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland will be joining us. This is going to be big!!! Event Details >>Here<< Please come along and make a […]
New BGS Report Highlights Shale Oil Threat In Wessex Basin
A new report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) estimates the Lower Lias shale formation in the Wessex Basin contains around 1.1 billion barrels of oil. This about a quarter of the amount the BGS estimated for the Weald Basin (where the Kimmeridge Clay, rather than the Lias, is the main threat) but still poses […]
Sibelco Plan New Silica Quarry In Cheshire – Frac Sand?!!
Sibelco UK Ltd. have submitted an application for a new silica quarry in Cheshire. The application came two weeks before the Secretary of State overruled Lancashire County Councils decision on fracking in Lancashire. Sibelco have previously supplied frac sand to Cuadrilla Resources for it’s ill-fated Preese Hall-1 well. Each well that Cuadrilla propose to frack […]