Tag Archives: Resistance
Guest blog: Tom Rooker reports on the “Gathering on the Green” at Lytham St. Annes
Concerned residents gathered at the historic windmill in the town of Lytham, near Blackpool last week to denounce the process of hydraulic fracturing and exploration for shale gas in the area. They gathered together for a group photograph and to participate in a discussion led by local protest groups. Their call for a ban […]
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Fracking around with the law
- Fracking trial has throw up many legal issues
- Licences don’t appear to allow for fracking
- Strategic environmental assessment not done
- Planning applications duplicitous and probably illegal
- Lack of environmental impact assessments
- No consultation at any stage of process
- In US changed law, in UK just ignoring it
- Government more concerned with PR than regulation
- Impossible to regulate even if there was anyone who wanted to
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Hydraulic fracturing on trial – live updates
Thanks to the good people at https://frackingontrial.org/ for these updates – live commentary on today’s proceedings. Three people are on trial charged with occupying a fracking rig in Lancashire, November 2011. Follow live on Twitter or visit https://frackingontrial.org/ 16.20 Court has finished for the day. We restart tomorrow at 10am. Thanks for all your support, […]
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Fracking Protesters Lay Siege to Cuadrilla Drill rig
Twenty Frack Off activists today blockaded Cuadrilla Resource’s drilling rig at its pound in Chesterfield. They descended on the site at 5am and locked themselves to the gates, preventing the rig from moving to its frack site in Lancashire. The UK fracker is preparing to re-commence drilling in July. The blockaded site is owned by […]
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Frack Free Somerset Launches!
NEW COALITION OF GROUPS FOR A FRACK FREE SOMERSET On Sunday 13th May, members of various sustainability groups in Somerset came together over a convivial lunch in Frome to form a coalition aimed at coordinating county-wide opposition to hydraulic fracturing, an extreme energy source, which involves drilling deep into the ground to extract shale gas. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Residents Say No To Burning Coal Under Swansea Bay
Residents from Swansea teamed up with activist group Frack Off this morning to protest against Underground Coal Gasification outside an industry conference in central London [1]. Swansea Bay has been chosen by extraction company Clean Coal Ltd as a test site for Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)[2], the controversial method of gasifying un-minable coal by […]
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5000 protest Shale Gas in Romania
5,000 Romanians protested against plans by U.S. oil company Chevron Corp. to drill for shale gas last week. Protesters took to the streets in advance a government decision to grant Chevron licenses to frack in three areas on the Black Sea coast. “Even if no well is drilled in my village, we will all be […]
East Sussex: UK first Frack Free Zone?
In a move described as “historic” East Sussex County Council today passed a motion highlighting concerns over Fracking, the first county in England to do so. The motion – adopted unanimously – emphasises public concern over Fracking and calls for the council to be properly briefed of the dangers before considering any future Fracking-related planning […]
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