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Interactive map of ALL Fracking sites across Britain & Ireland – It’s Organising Time
Do you live in or near a fracking licence or site? Want to find your nearest group? Want to know which company owns the fracking licence you live in? It’s all here in this interactive map: https://frack-off.org.uk/extreme-energy-fullscreen/ NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… Email info@frack-off.org if you want help setting […]
Fracking industry threatens to destroy one of the few remaining global wildernesses
The Botswana government has quietly sold the rights to frack for shale gas in one of Africa’s largest protected conservation areas, it has emerged. The Kgalagadi transfrontier park, which spans the border with South Africa, is an immense 3 6,000 sq km wilderness, home to gemsbok desert antelope, black-maned Kalahari lions and pygmy falcons. But […]
Latest research finds it’s now even harder to find out which fracking chemicals the industry is using
The fracking industry uses a wide variety of legal tricks, including trade-secret claims and non-disclosure agreements, to hide details of its activities, and particularly cases where it has harmed people, from regulators, the media, researchers and the general public Latest media coverage (and link to Journal article): http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/11/25/3725778/fracking-chemicals-who-knows/ More about secrecy within the fracking industry here. […]
Fracking & Life don’t mix. Who knew!?
The RSPB has warned that almost 300 of England’s most important wildlife sites are at risk from fracking after completing a full analysis of the areas of land that Government have offered to energy companies to explore for oil and gas. RSPB Article: http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.aspx?id=407155&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=News NOW IS THE TIME TO GET ORGANISED! Find your Local Group here… […]
Lancashire Communities Bypassed In Fracking Decision
Today, the decision to frack in Lancashire, has been taken even further from the people that will have to live with the consequences. Community Anti-Fracking Groups across the UK are the only thing standing in the way of government attempts to force Cuadrilla’s fracking plans through. The Community Fight Back Continues!!! “People need to wake […]
Radioactive frack waste is being brought to the surface in huge quantities across the U.S.
The U.S. fracking boom has produced so much toxic waste that regulators are struggling to deal with it. Companies have been caught sneaking radioactive waste into domestic land-fill sites and even fly-tipping lorry loads of the hazardous material. Latest Press Coverage: http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/11/23/western-state-regulators-struggling-keep-radioactive-fracking-and-drilling-waste-new-report Read more about the harm caused by fracking here. NOW IS THE TIME TO […]
People of Ryedale are making life very difficult for the fracking industry!
The North Yorkshire anti-fracking movement is booming. Now is the time get involved and really turn up the pressure! www.frackfreeryedale.org/km8round2 Latest from Frack Free Ryedale: North Yorkshire County Council have written to Third Energy to request clarification on numerous issues, such as numerous problems with the traffic survey, the noise attenuation barrier, water and landscape issues, the lack of […]
Latest Anti-Fracking Community Victory! Cuadrilla Abandon Lancashire Site
After nearly 5 years Cuadrilla have abandoned their proposed fracking site at Becconsall near Banks, Lancashire. This is the same site that was occupied by protesters on the same day that Cuadrilla admitted causing seismic activity back in 2011. Residents and members of the UK’s very first anti-fracking community group Ribble Estuary Against Fracking (REAF) […]