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GUEST BLOG: North Lanarkshire Community Scare Off Coal-Bed Methane Application
Reach CSG Ltd submitted a planning application on 23/11/11 on the grounds of Devro Ltd ,Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire to erect a facility for the Exploration of CBM. The application basically stated that their intention was to drill one borehole to a depth of 1000m, case the borehole to a depth of 100m and monitor the […]
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Brightoners unveil huge anti-fracking banner at city station
Brightoners recently unveiled a bus-sized banner at the city’s station. Raising awareness about the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, the banner – over 22 square metres – was hand painted by fifteen people at CRAFT – Creative Resistance Against the Fracking Threat. Hydraulic fracturing injects millions of gallons of chemicals and water into the ground […]
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Climate Rush Bristol Launch!
Join us – stir your climate passion, discover your local battlegrounds and form a community willing to stand up to an oil-run world. The climate change movement needs your inspiration. We need to create smart, gorgeous and radical ideas, we need to push things faster, we need to choose our climate change battles and we need […]
Europe against Fracking – a continent says: NO!
The last six months has seen anti-fracking sweep Europe. In an extraordinary upsurge of citizen-led pressure, European governments, state legislatures, civil liberty groups, activists and residents have all taken up arms against the hydraulic fracturing industry. Grassroots organisations have staged marches, legal challenges, hundreds of public meetings and many direct actions in response to this […]
Guest Blog: For the New Year: A Warning from the Fracked States of America:
A blog all the way from America. Anti-fracking campaigners from the US give their own perspective, and warn the UK campaign about those who might pretend to be on our side. Look out for certain politicians and environmentalists posing as our allies. The politicians may say that they find fracking unconscionable, abominable, crazy etc. but […]
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Cuadrilla boss mauled at West Sussex public meeting
Cuadrilla boss Mark Miller received a tongue lashing at a public meeting in Balcombe, West Sussex, last night. 300 people – including 100 standing – packed Balcombe’s Victory hall to hear the Cuadrilla CEO expound on the company’s controversial Hydraulic Fracturing technique, scheduled to take place a mile from the village. (Listen to a recording […]
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Fifty Attend fracking meeting in Brighton
Fifty people attended last night’s meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) at Community Base in Brighton. The meeting, hosted by South Coast Climate Camp, watched the Ecologist film ‘video‘ and listened to a presentation on plans for fracking in the UK. Fracking, which in has caused earthquakes in Lancashire and extensive ground water contamination in the […]
Poland: Fracking opponents block shale gas conference
Last week Polish activists disrupted the “Shale Gas World Europe 2011” conference in Warsaw. Below we republish their press release in it’s entirety… and don’t miss this inspiring video of their action. “We will do everything to assure that protests are not able to stop shale gas exploration in Poland.” – Bernard Błaszczyk, Vice Minister […]
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