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Company that drilled Horse Hill site looking to expand in region…
Fracking company UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG) announced a few days ago that it had just done a deal with Celtique Energie and Magellan to acquire 100% of PEDL234. This gives it control of a site with planning permission and permits at Broadford Bridge. UKOG have a large stake in the Horse Hill well […]
It’s all over for Infrastrata in Woodburn Forest N.Ireland
Comment from Don’t Drill Antrim Water: Great joy in Woodburn Forest last night. It is clear that Infrastrata plan to abandon very quickly. Today we are calling for NIEA monitors to enter the site and to oversee the completion. Can you help us? Call 0300 200 7852 and insist that NIEA come on site now. […]
Ineos’ toxic fracking waste solution? Dump it it the ocean…
In an email sent in March to a resident in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, where councillors gave the go-ahead to a fracking application by another company in May, a senior executive said that water produced during fracking could be discharged in the sea after being treated. It has not previously said where treated water would […]
Want to do something about the fracking threat? Live in or around York? This meeting is for you!
City-based organising to support those fighting the fracking threat in North Yorkshire and elsewhere – lots to do, lots of possibilities! Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/214603158932889/ 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 live here… See a map of all […]
When the fracking industry arrives, air pollution is an immediate threat…
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Texas have all recorded massively increased air pollution as a result of fracking, including local concentrations of toxic hydrocarbons fumes as well as region-wide ozone pollution, with residents suffering headaches, sore throats, nosebleeds, dizziness and breathing difficulties… More on air pollution and fracking: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#air The Study: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010004.full An organised community […]
Flooding and fracking don’t mix…
Flooding has inundated a number of AGL’s coal seam gas wells near the swollen Nepean River, and sent two tanks containing CSG waste water adrift. AGL, though, said gas bubbles surfacing near one flooded well site were not methane leaks, disputing concerns raised by anti-CSG activists. The floods have covered “a number” of AGL’s CSG wells in the region, including at Menangle Park […]
“It’ll be bodies stopping trucks if the courts fail us…”
A tiny community sitting on a 27-square-mile piece of Western Pennsylvania wanted to send a big message to the energy company planning to deposit toxic fracking wastewater under its neighbourhoods. Grant Township planned ahead. It passed a law that protects its residents from arrest if they protest against Pennsylvania General Energy Company’s (PGE) creation of […]
Community Mobilisation Against Aurora Seismic Survey Threat
Aurora Energy Resources are trying to carry out 3D seismic surveying. Landowners are being bullied into allowing these test to take place on their land, as refusing access would result in high court action, sanctioned by the Secretary of State. The survey will be carried out by TESLA Exploration International and could begin within the […]