Tag Archives: Impacts

Don`t Frack Our Future – Doreen`s Story

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Tessier Ashpool

Unconventional gas exploration is threatening the UK. Licenses have already been granted by the Government with little or no community consultation. The scale of the industrialisation and impacts are never discussed. This film charts Doreen and John’s journey from the shock of the drill rigs arrival to the sickening realisation that their lives and the […]

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Fracking pollutes groundwater: damning new data

Posted on July 19, 2013 by fred

                            A little-known US government database shows conclusively that fracking forces gas and chemicals into sources of groundwater. This directly contradicts senior British ministers, US government officials and the fracking industry who have repeatedly denied links between fracking and contaminated water supplies. […]

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20 Impact of Unconventional Gas Technologies

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Tessier Ashpool

These resources are designed to be used by anyone.  20 images have been  selected to represent 20 inescapable impacts of each unconventional gas extraction technology. The images can be used in presentations, talks and workshops in digital format or can be printed out and used as stimulus material for discussion. Large format A3 versions of […]

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Dart Energy dumps extraordinary levels of benzene into Firth of Forth

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Tessier Ashpool

Nov 2014 UPDATE – For a full round-up of the situation in Scotland click here… Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith is a senior adviser to the National Toxics Network (NTN) and recently coauthored NTN’s report on the chemical impacts of hydraulic fracturing in the Australian shale and coal seam gas industry. Mariann has been visiting communities and […]

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44 percent of wells leaking at UK Treasury director’s gasfield: Australian government

Posted on April 20, 2013 by fred

Over 44 percent of wells are leaking in an Australian gasfield overseen by UK Treasury director Baroness Hogg, according to the Queensland government (see p4 of linked pdf). Almost half the wells tested at the Tara field in Queensland show some sign of leakage, reports the Queensland Mines Department. Over 5,000 coal bed methane (CBM) […]

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Fracking Nightmare: Destroying Our Countryside

Posted on January 30, 2013 by radix
  • New UK government energy strategy
  • Increases reliance on natural gas
  • Assumption that fracking can fill gap
  • Minor onshore oil and gas in UK to date
  • Fracking requires huge amount of drilling
  • 54,000 wells to supply 40 power stations
  • Would cover 7,000 sq miles (size of Wales)
  • 36,000 wells to offset North Sea decline
  • Would cover an additional 4,700 sq miles
  • Massive impacts give population density

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Driller`s wells produce carcinogenic water

Posted on October 31, 2012 by fred

The Coal Bed Methane (CBM) operator behind the UK’s largest onshore gas development, Dart Energy, has found its old CBM wells in Australia are now producing carcinogenic water. 50% of Dart’s 7-year-old wells in Dalby, Queensland were found to be leaking by the Queensland government. Tests showed high levels of benzene, toluene, ethylene and xylene […]

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Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) – DASH FOR GAS ISN’T ALL IT’S FRACKED UP TO BE

Posted on October 31, 2012 by John Gray

The government should proceed with caution over fracking warns the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), in its new policy position statement ‘hydraulic fracturing of shale in the UK’. The statement reviews the potential environmental impacts of the use of hydraulic fracturing, known as ‘fracking’ to access natural gas reserves in shale rock, […]

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