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‘The announcement that underground coal gasification (UCG) company Five-Quarter Energy is being wound up, after 8 years of trying to raise money to set fire to coal seams under the coast of Northumberland, will be a welcome relief to anyone with any interest in the ecological or social fabric of these islands. Five-Quarter wanted to […]

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‘IGas is at the centre of disputes with the authorities in two areas where it has licences to explore for gas. In Cheshire, the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is demanding IGas pay the £200,000 costs of a police operation for the eviction of a protest camp. And in Nottinghamshire, a local council is taking […]

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‘At around 12 noon on Tuesday 23rd February 2016, grandmother Linda Foord thought she was being a good Samaritan by offering tea and cakes to police officers and protesters outside a proposed drilling site in Surrey. But rather than a smile and gratitude, Linda was given a verbal warning and told she risked being arrested […]

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‘For years, scientists and residents of areas where fracking is performed have raised concerns that the controversial mining practice could be causing cancer. Now a direct link has been demonstrated for the first time, in a collaborative study by numerous respected U.S. and Chinese institutions, and published in the journal Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. Fracking, […]

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‘The Scottish Government has ditched a major contract to investigate the environmental impact of fracking after the Sunday Herald revealed it had been awarded to an avowed supporter of the controversial technology. Earlier this month ministers gave a £36,000 contract to the Edinburgh firm Ramboll Environ, but in a dramatic u-turn on Friday night, the […]

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‘Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, played a major part in the recovery of the American economy after the 2008 crash. In just a few years, fracking made it possible for the price of oil to go down from $100 per barrel to $63 by the end of 2014. Since then, the number has continued to drop, […]

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‘Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology just proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer. Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to measure the carcinogenesis of toxicants, researchers confirmed […]

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‘Anti-fracking campaigners occupied branches of Barclays bank in five British cities yesterday. Sit-ins took place in London, Leeds, Sheffield, Lancaster and Oxford, forcing staff to close the branches and turn customers away. Campaigners are calling on the bank to cancel its £1.2 billion of investments in ‘extreme energy’ producers.’ Read more: Anti-fracking protests target Barclays

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‘In the past few minutes, IGas has confirmed it will not be drilling for coal bed methane at Upton near Chester, where a protest camp was evicted last month.The company said the site at Dutton’s Lane and another at Salters Lane, Mickle Trafford, did not meet its criteria for commerical coal bed methane development. The […]

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‘There are essentially two kinds of environmental initiatives – the kind that are legitimately geared to protect the planet, animals, and humans and the kind that are anti-progress, de-industrializing, and based on political ideologies. Whenever one examines the positions of Hillary Clinton, it is easy to see that the latter occupies the vast majority of […]

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‘Campaigners warned fracking could bring “devastating” consequences as it creeps closer to Nottinghamshire. More than 30 people crowded around the Brian Clough statue in Nottingham city centre on Sunday to highlight the issues associated with the controversial deep-drilling technique. It was one of a series of co-ordinated “No Fracking Way” protests held around the country, […]

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The government is planning to strip powers from local councils and communities to stop them blocking fracking planning applications. An army of unelected planning inspectors would decide on all planning applications concenrned with fracking. Read more: Ministers Secret Plans to Force Fracking on Communities Revealed

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‘The letter, leaked to Friends of the Earth, spells out the Government’s underhand plan to roll out fracking no matter what. Osborne’s recommendations include: Side-stepping democracy – less time spent consulting the public Undermining elected representatives – by helping fracking companies overturn applications rejected by county councils. Carrying out the fracking industry’s PR – spending […]

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‘Fracking in Wales is unlikely to happen for at least a decade and arguably much longer, experts say. With the oil price plunging across the world and significant political opposition in Wales, it is thought the prospect of exploiting the shale gas and oil beneath South Wales is vanishing. It was revealed last week that […]

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