Press Release: Anti-Fracking Day of Action, as Cuadrilla’s Report Confirms...
E-mail: media@frack-off.org Phone: Nathan- 07858614861 Twitter: @frack_off Website: www.frack-off.org Yesterday saw a day of anti-fracking action as ‘Frack Off’ activists stormed a drilling...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleFracking regulations under scrutiny by UK government
On 4 Feb The Times revealed that the UK government is conducting a review of the regulations surrounding Hydraulic Fracturing. In contrast to earlier ministerial assurances that fracking requires no...
View ArticleFracken Sie Deutsch?
Whilst shale gas exploration is a relatively new phenomena in the UK, it seems that the oil and gas industry has been busy fracking up Europe for some time. I saw a link to the film below only last...
View ArticleWomad sponsor leaked Benzene into groundwater
A sponsor of the international Womad festival leaked benzene, ethylbenzene and xylene into ground water in New Zealand. Fracking company Shell Todd found the chemicals under storage pits at its site in...
View ArticleNorth Sea gas leak one of thousands worldwide
The leak at Total’s North Sea gas well is only one of thousands of gas wells leaking worldwide. Indeed, it’s an issue the industry tries to keep quiet – although it’s known about it for a long time. In...
View ArticleGuest Blog by Residents Action On Fylde Fracking (RAFF) – So its one rule for...
Environment Agency Exempt Cuadrilla From Permit Licence The Environment Agency (EA) has rolled over and granted Cuadrilla permission to move the 18,000 gallons of radioactive flowback sludge that has...
View ArticleChartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) – DASH...
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...
View ArticleDriller`s wells produce carcinogenic water
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...
View ArticleFracking Nightmare: Destroying Our Countryside
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...
View Article44 percent of wells leaking at UK Treasury director’s gasfield: Australian...
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...
View ArticleDart Energy dumps extraordinary levels of benzene into Firth of Forth
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...
View ArticleFracking In Balcombe: A Community Says No
Fracking threatening Sussex countryside Cuadrilla have licences for 270 square miles Planning permission to drill in Balcombe Targeting layer within Kimmeridge Clay Analogous to Bakken Shale in North...
View Article20 Impact of Unconventional Gas Technologies
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...
View ArticleFracking pollutes groundwater: damning new data
A little-known US government database shows conclusively that fracking forces gas and chemicals into sources of groundwater. This directly contradicts senior British...
View ArticleDon`t Frack Our Future – Doreen`s Story
Script & References Hello. My name is Doreen. I live in Lancashire with my husband John and the first I knew about “fracking” was a planning notice on a telegraph pole”. Then suddenly there was a...
View ArticleNorth Sea gas leak one of thousands worldwide
The leak at Total’s North Sea gas well is only one of thousands of gas wells leaking worldwide. Indeed, it’s an issue the industry tries to keep quiet – although it’s known about it for a long time. In...
View ArticleChartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) – DASH...
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...
View ArticleDriller`s wells produce carcinogenic water
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...
View ArticleFracking Nightmare: Destroying Our Countryside
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...
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