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Norfolk At Risk From Frack Sand Mining
The fracking industry requires massive volumes of fine sand (silica) that is injected into shale wells along with water and chemical. The sand holds pathways in the shale rock open so that gas can be extracted. In the US sand mining, transportation and handling has caused significant impacts for communities and workers. When silica becomes […]
North Nottinghamshire is under fracking threat. Join the fight today!
Fracking company IGas Energy Ltd have submitted a planning application to explore for shale gas at Misson Springs, North Nottinghamshire, UK Application here: http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/planningsearch/plandisp.aspx?AppNo=ES/3379 Frack Free Nottinghamshire are suggesting objection should should cover the following issues: *Industrialisation of the landscape *Increase in noise *Increase in air and light pollution *The proximity of Misson Carr SSSI *The […]
Shale gas is a ‘transition’ fuel? Not a chance!
Fugitive emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas leaking out of gas wells, pipelines and compressor stations, may total over 10 percent of production making fracking worse than burning coal in terms of climate change, over a 20 year time scale. Read more here: https://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/#climate NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! It is essential that […]
Areas At Risk From Frack Sand Mining in the UK
The fracking industry requires massive volumes of fine sand (silica) that is injected into shale wells along with water and chemical. The sand holds pathways in the shale rock open so that gas can be extracted. In the US sand mining, transportation and handling has caused significant impacts for communities and workers. When silica becomes […]
What fracking really means for Pennsylvania’s forests.
Over 1.5 million acres of Pennsylvania’s State Forests are threatened by the fracking industry. With 673,000 acres directly available to oil and gas development. Staggaringl;y this is not just due to private interests owning mineral rights within forests, but the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has also opened upo land for drilling where […]
The Truth About Fracking Well Numbers
A local councillor in North Yorkshire says Third Energy showed him a diagram of ten horizontal boreholes leading from the well the company wants to frack for shale gas at Kirby Misperton. The company has confirmed that the diagram were conceptual. The handful of exploration wells being drilled in the UK right now are not […]
Swansea Council has ignored residents. Now the fight really begins.
Swansea Council’s planning committee unanimously approved the scheme by UK Methane for a site at Bryntywod, near Llangyfelach, South Wales. One of the main objections from locals was that the site is on the flood plain of the Afon Lan river. Live in the region? You are needed to join the campaign against unconventional oil and gas […]
Despite what the industry likes to say – fracking means massive industrialisation
Fracking infrastructure — complex and widespread — poses serious potential exposure risks to those living near it. Compressor stations are semi-permanent facilities that pollute the air 24 hours a day, as long as gas is flowing through the pipeline. The Medical Society of the State of New York and the American Medical Association have each […]