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GREENPEACE EVIDENCE REPORT
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/fracking-evidence-report
This report is not a standard, static document. We're encouraging readers to view it as a "living document", which will regularly be updated as new findings are made public. Each new version will be updated numerically; the version launched today is 1.0 (November 2013)
http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-fracking-dorset-county-council
ANIMATION EXPLAINING FRACKING
http://youtu.be/VHUMCGmjGsM
Infrastrata about planning approval
http://www.infrastrata.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=105
Local councils to be stripped of right to decide on fracking
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/gas/9744917/Local-councils-to-be-stripped-of-right-to-decide-on-fracking.html
Gas companies granted licences for fracking in Dorset and the New Forest
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10441582.Gas_companies_granted_licences_for_fracking_in_Dorset_and_the_New_Forest/
Water firms raise fears over shale gas fracking
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/utilities/10189331/Water-firms-raise-fears-over-shale-gas-fracking.html
Lord Browne: fracking will not reduce UK gas prices
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/29/browne-fracking-not-reduce-uk-gas-prices-shale-energy-bills
800,000 people 'lifted' out of fuel poverty – by redefining it
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/800000-people-lifted-out-offuel-poverty--by-redefining-it-8976232.html
Water shortages may make fracking impractical, industry says
www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/water-shortages-fracking-impractical-uk
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This involves INFRASTRATA who are also about to mount a rig in Swanage:
Community mobilises as Fracking threat looms large in Carrickfergus?
http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=689978e20e3c2b04dc76aa7bc&id=a2e9330622
More info regarding the question whether promises not to frack can be trusted:
Chester and Ellesmere Port: Anti-frackers claim public has been misled
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-ellesmere-port-anti-frackers-claim-7761446
This film explains the problems with gas rigs - fracking or not:
Dr. Theo Colborn discusses the health risks and impacts, based research done by her and her team at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, from the chemicals used in oil and gas development.
http://youtu.be/hiZK_af9DYU
A summary of the main arguments against fracking:
4 reasons why we could all be fracked by fracking, Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/3-reasons-why-we-could-all-be-fracked-fracking-20130812?source=fb&subsource=20140911frafb02&utm_source=gpeace&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=20140911frafb02
Amazing film, a must see:
Emma Thompson in the Arctic with Greenpeace: 'There are more good-looking men on this boat than any place I have ever been' – video
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/sep/10/emma-thompson-arctic-video
Fracking planned at Ellesmere Port
http://www.machinery-market.co.uk/news/7810/Fracking-planned-at-Ellesmere-Port
Spotlight on council to reject fracking bid
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/spotlight-on-council-to-reject-fracking-bid-1-6838648
Upton: Lib Dems host meeting to discuss fracking issue
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/upton-lib-dems-host-meeting-7761451
Hear Neil Young Protest Fracking & Corporate America in 'Who's Gonna Stand Up'
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6251162/neil-young-whos-gonna-stand-up-live-liverpool-2014-crazy-horse-new-song
ACT TOGETHER FOR A FRACK FREE PLANET
http://www.dorseteye.com/north/articles/act-together-for-a-frack-free-planet
Firm agrees not to discharge unconventional drilling waste from Marcellus Shale
http://www.shaleenergyinsider.com/2014/09/12/firm-agrees-not-to-discharge-unconventional-drilling-waste-from-marcellus-shale/
At Precisely the Worst Moment, Big Oil in America Is Back with a Vengeance
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/04/precisely-worst-moment-big-oil-america-back-vengeance
About that "We've been fracking for 60 years" thing.
http://www.un-earthed.com/weve-fracking-60-years-thing/
Fracking firm has Fermanagh injunction extended
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/fracking-firm-has-fermanagh-injunction-extended-30473274.html
People near 'fracking' wells report health woes
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/10/people-near-fracking-wells-health-symptoms/15337797/
The Popping of the Shale Gas Bubble
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billpowers/2014/09/03/the-popping-of-the-shale-gas-bubble/
Keiser Report: Energy Hoax? FRACKING! (E636)
http://youtu.be/7KJTNmBNINQ
The End of Fracking Is Closer Than You Think
https://news.vice.com/article/the-end-of-fracking-is-closer-than-you-think
CO2 levels in atmosphere rising at dramatically faster rate, U.N. report warns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/co2-levels-in-atmosphere-rising-at-dramatically-faster-rate-un-report-warns/2014/09/08/3e2277d2-378d-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html
'No fracking boom' – expert says
http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/09/fracking-boom-expert-says/
Digging in for a lengthy battle to stop fracking
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/environment/digging-in-for-a-lengthy-battle-to-stop-fracking-1-6827212
ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT FRACKING
http://www.talkaboutshale.com/
http://www.ukoog.org.uk/about-ukoog/press-releases/133-general-public-encouraged-to-ask-questoins-about-natural-gas-from-shale
Fracking is a toxic issue for Conservative party grassroots
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/08/shale-gas-fracking-conservatives-grassroots?CMP=twt_gu
Ministers close to frack deal for widespread UK drilling
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/157660/Ministers-frack-deal-over-widespread-drilling
Polluters are "hijacking our democracy," according to retired military general who took control of Hurricane Katrina emergency relief efforts in 2005
http://toledoblade.typepad.com/ripple-effect/2014/09/polluters-are-hijacking-our-democracy-according-to-retired-military-general-who-took-control-of-hurr.html
Bad News For Obama: Fracking May Be Worse Than Burning Coal
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/methane-fracking-obama-climate-change-bill-mckibben
Fracking at Little Plumpton: 11,000 responses to consultation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-29078735
Newcastle City Council Opposes Fracking
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/groups/newcastle/blog/newcastle-city-council-opposes-fracking
Brian Cox: scientists giving false sense of debate on climate change
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/03/brian-cox-scientists-climate-change
AGL'S RESPONSE ON LEAKING COAL SEAM GAS WELL RAISES MORE QUESTIONS
http://jeremybuckingham.org/2014/09/01/agls-response-on-leaking-coal-seam-gas-well-raises-more-questions/
BP's reckless conduct caused Deepwater Horizon oil spill, judge rules
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/04/bp-reckless-conduct-oil-spill-judge-rules
Fracking for oil or gas under South Downs would be madness
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/fracking-oil-or-gas-under-south-downs-would-be-madness_03092014
No One Knows How Bad Fracking Is For Animals -- And That's A Problem
https://www.thedodo.com/no-one-knows-how-bad-fracking--672810659.html?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_article
Cashing In On Carbon: How Taxpayer Dollars Greenwash Dirty Energy
http://priceofoil.org/2014/09/04/cashing-in-on-carbon-subsidy-spotlight/
Nova Scotia bans fracking in snub to Canada PM Harper
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/09/04/nova-scotia-bans-fracking-in-snub-to-canada-pm-harper/
Opposition to drilling elevated to an art form
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=a271ed7f-d512-4a26-9b32-226ba7bfb1ea
Cameron's claim fracking will lower gas prices is baseless, says Lord Stern
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/04/david-cameron-fracking-lord-stern
Declare Ceredigion as the first Frack Free Local Authority in Wales
http://www.change.org/p/ellen-ap-gwynn-leader-of-ceredigion-county-council-declare-ceredigion-as-the-first-frack-free-local-authority-in-wales
Watchdog slaps down 'misleading' fracking ad
http://www.energylivenews.com/2014/09/03/watchdog-slaps-down-misleading-fracking-ad/
South Downs oil drilling refusal recommended
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-29048624
Give the British people a vote/referendum on fracking
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/68057
Shale Gas: How Often Do Fracked Wells Leak?
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/01/09/Leaky-Fracked-Wells/
Green spaces under threat from planning system and funding crisis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/11065039/Green-spaces-under-threat-from-planning-system-and-funding-crisis.html
Fracking Pennsylvania courts cases
http://www.coal-seam-gas.com/usa/pennsylvania.htm#.VAdGt8VdWSo
Press Release: Grant Township Supervisors Vote to Defend Community Bill of Rights Banning Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
http://celdf.org/press-release-grant-township-supervisors-vote-to-defend-community-bill-of-rights-banning-frack-wastewater-injection-wells-
Big Oil, Bad Air - Fracking the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas
http://eagleford.publicintegrity.org/
Coming Soon: The World's Largest Tidal Power Plant Will Generate Electricity for 175,000 Homes
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/09/coming-soon-worlds-largest-tidal-power-plant-will-generate-electricity-175000-homes.html
Anti-fracking campaigners to enter debate over Ellesmere proposal
http://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news/137724/anti-fracking-campaigners-to-enter-debate-over-ellesmere-proposal.aspx
WCBC, REJECT APPLICATIONS TO EXPLORE AND EXTRACT SHALE GAS AND COAL BED METHANE.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-fracking-wrexham-county-borough-council
Satellite Map Shows Fracking Flares in Texas and North Dakota Equal to Greenhouse Emissions From 1.5 Million Cars
http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/22/flared-gas-fracking-texas-north-dakota/
Earthquake hazard linked with deep well injection in Alberta
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/earthquake-hazard-linked-with-deep-well-injection-in-alberta-1.2751963
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Establishment-And-They-Away/dp/1846147190
Water shortage could hit China's fracking plans
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/09/02/water-shortage-could-hit-chinas-fracking-plans/
Pro-fracking newspaper ad banned by Advertising Standards Authority
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/03/pro-fracking-advert-banned-asa-breitling-energy-shale-gas-daily-telegraph?CMP=twt_gu
What Chemicals Are Used
http://fracfocus.org/chemical-use/what-chemicals-are-used
4 states confirm water pollution from drilling
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/05/some-states-confirm-water-pollution-from-drilling/4328859/
MINING IN NORTHERN IRELAND = 'FRACKING BY THE BACK DOOR'
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mining-in-northern-ireland-fracking-by-the-back-door?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1395421576
Water stress may curtail fracking, says WRI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29020555
Voters want "big changes" - and only the Greens can deliver, says party leader Natalie Bennett
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/regional-affairs/green-party-leader-natalie-bennett-7615094
IGas nears fracking in North West
http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/oil-and-gas/1019131.article
Understand how your council works
https://www.gov.uk/understand-how-your-council-works/types-of-council
Fracked off - natural gas victims flee Colorado's toxic air
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2535304/fracked_off_natural_gas_victims_flee_colorados_toxic_air.html
Scientists shocked to discover the true toxicity of fracking fluids; it's worse than we've been told
http://www.naturalnews.com/046573_fracking_fluids_toxic_chemicals_health_effects.html#
Fracking is 'threat to property prices'
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11434500._/
Methane Is Discovered Seeping From Seafloor Off East Coast, Scientists Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/science/methane-is-seeping-from-seafloor-off-east-coast-scientists-say.html?_r=1
Flares emitting more pollution than refineries
http://www.expressnews.com/business/eagleford/item/Up-in-Flames-Day-2-Flares-emitting-more-32640.php
Cuadrilla admits drilling caused Blackpool earthquakes (from 2011)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8864669/Cuadrilla-admits-drilling-caused-Blackpool-earthquakes.html
Oil companies fracking into drinking water sources, new research shows
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fracking-groundwater-pavillion-20140811-story.html#page=1
US States Do Not Measure Amount of Gas Burned at Fracking Sites, Equivalent to the Emissions of Millions of Cars, and It May Be Illegal
http://thespeaker.co/us-states-measure-amount-gas-burned-fracking-sites-equivalent-emissions-millions-cars-may-illegal/
Secret emails reveal the risk to water in Sussex from fracking was known by officials
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10610762.Secret_emails_reveal_the_risk_to_water_in_Sussex_from_fracking_was_known_by_officials/?ref=ar
The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/26/the-establishment-uncovered-how-power-works-in-britain-elites-stranglehold
Rural battle over fracking
http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/news/local/rural-battle-over-fracking-1-6805661
Taxpayers to pay for fracking pollution if companies go bust
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/11/taxpayers-fracking-pollution-companies?CMP=twt_gu
What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate Movement
http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/24/steingraber-fracking-peoples-climate-march/?utm_content=buffer92080&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
MORE THAN 800 ANTI-FRACKING SONGS!!!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/alerte-schiste/more-than-700-anti-fracking-songs/588226134602995
http://frack-off.org.uk/local-group-specific-pages/
Anti-fracking campaigners to go head to head with energy bosses
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2014/08/25/anti-fracking-campaigners-to-go-head-to-head-with-energy-bosses/
Fracking campaigners criticise 'censored' report on house prices
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/10/fracking-censored-house-price-report
Guidance for photographers in public
http://www.dorseteye.com/north/photos/guidance-for-photographers-in-public
If fracking's so great, why is it a state secret?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3MJdhr14g
UK energy dependence – five hidden costs expose truth about fracking
http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/aug/18/uk-energy-dependence-five-hidden-costs-fracking
Man-Made Earthquakes Are Changing the Seismic Landscape
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/man-made-earthquakes-are-altering-the-geologic-landscape/372243/
Shale gas: 'The dotcom bubble of our times'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/11006723/fracking-for-Shale-gas-the-dotcom-bubble-of-our-times.html
Poland: 400 Days Of Protest Stops Shale Gas Exploration
www.popularresistance.org/poland-400-days-of-protest-stops-shale-gas-exploration/
Why the Scientific Case Against Fracking Keeps Getting Stronger
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/inquiring-minds-anthony-ingraffea-science-fracking-methane
Now Cameron aide Lynton Crosby's links to fracking industry are explored
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/now-cameron-aide-lynton-crosbys-links-to-fracking-industry-are-explored-8708331.html
Companies proclaim water the next oil in a rush to turn resources into profit
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/27/water-nestle-drink-charge-privatize-companies-stocks?CMP=fb_gu
The whole of the Isle of Wight now open for Fracking exploration
http://onthewight.com/2014/07/31/whole-isle-wight-now-open-fracking-exploration/
Residents association given permission to challenge council over fracking permission
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11382942.Residents_association_given_permission_to_challenge_council_over_fracking_permission/?ref=var_0
Good attendance at meeting about fracking
http://www.dorseteye.com/east/articles/good-attendance-at-meeting-about-fracking
A step-by-step explanation of how hydraulic fracking works
in Colorado. Narrated by Professor of Engineering, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea of Cornell University.
History will condemn climate change denialists
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/16/history-will-condemn-climate-change-denialists
REPOWERBalcombe
www.repowerbalcombe.com
– a community project to generate enough clean, renewable energy locally to meet all of our village's electricity needs.
After Two Towns Beat the Fracking Industry in a Top State Court, Can Others Follow?
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_67023.shtml
Boris Johnson calls for landowner shale rights
http://www.farminguk.com/news/Boris-Johnson-calls-for-landowner-shale-rights_30429.html
Huge ND Wastewater Spill Prompts Calls For Fracking Regs
http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Huge-ND-Wastewater-Spill-Prompts-Calls-For-Fracking-Regs.html
Exxon battles anti-fracking attorney general in Pennsylvania criminal case
http://petroglobalnews.com/2014/07/exxon-battles-anti-fracking-attorney-general-in-pennsylvania-criminal-case/
Exploratory drilling for oil set to start near Horley
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Exploratory-drilling-oil-place-near-Horley/story-21441828-detail/story.html
Major Scientific Document Shows Why NY Fracking Moratorium Is Imperative
http://www.mintpressnews.com/major-scientific-document-shows-ny-fracking-moratorium-imperative/193852/
COMPENDIUM OF SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, AND MEDIA FINDINGS
DEMONSTRATING RISKS AND HARMS OF FRACKING
http://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CHPNY-Fracking-Compendium.pdf
Three people dead…contaminated water after fracking
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/two-people-dead-fracking-to-blame/
Judge dismisses lawsuits challenging fracking delay
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2014/07/14/judge-dismisses-lawsuits-challenging-fracking-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Fracking Victims Demand EPA Reopen Investigations Into Poisoned Drinking Water
http://ecowatch.com/2013/09/26/fracking-victims-demand-epa-reopen-investigations-into-drinking-water/
CORRECTED-Switzerland threatens 40 pct carbon tax rise if targets not met
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/14/switzerland-carbontrading-idUSL6N0PP4F720140714
Penn. Didn't Address Fracking Health Impacts, Former Health Secretary Says
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2014/07/14/334426.htm
Denton, TX, to Consider Fracking Ban Tuesday
http://www.naturalgasintel.com/articles/99001-denton-tx-to-consider-fracking-ban-tuesday
7 Quakes Hit Oklahoma in Less Than a Day
http://time.com/2981013/oklahoma-earthquakes-fracking/
Hundreds of Gallons of Hydraulic Fluid Spills Into Ohio River Outside New Martinsville
http://www.wtrf.com/story/25996201/hundreds-of-gallons-of-hydraulic-fluid-spills-into-ohio-river-outside-new-martinsville
UNCONVENTIONAL GAS AND INSURANCE / HOME VALUE !
https://www.facebook.com/notes/606419292783679/
Future generations risk 'enslavement' without a vote now
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/jan/04/climate-politics-future-generation-justice
Fem grunde til at sige nej til skifergas - Danish article (use Google Translate)
http://politiken.dk/debat/ECE2331350/fem-grunde-til-at-sige-nej-til-skifergas/
Nestlé's water privatization push
http://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/nestle_water_privatization_push
KeiserReport: Tina Rothery (Residents Against Fylde Fracking) 12July14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7e0PdoDaPM&app=desktop
Shale gas and the war in East Ukraine
Shell sails ahead without UK shale
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/rdsb/10948157/Shell-sails-ahead-without-UK-shale.html
Fracking protesters to camp at exploration site
http://www.thelocal.dk/20140710/shale-gas-protesters-to-camp-at-exploration-site
Peter Rolinson explains the risks of water pollution from fracking
http://www.frackfreeyork.org.uk/peter-rolinson-explains-the-risks-of-water-pollution-from-fracking/
Climate change: Oil and gas wells are leaking greenhouse gas
https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/climate-change-oil-and-gas-wells-are-leaking-greenhouse-gas
Fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10957292/Fossil-industry-is-the-subprime-danger-of-this-cycle.html
Fracking and the implications for Dorset residents
http://www.dorseteye.com/east/articles/fracking-and-the-implications-for-dorset-residents
Max Keiser talks about the economics of fracking
http://youtu.be/fP8XklfMqHk
Infrastrata promises not to frack in Swanage
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11311636._No_fracking__promise_from_company_behind_exploratory_gas_well/
Dart makes 'fracking' promise
Friends of the Earth Scotland campaigner Mary Church argued: "While it's good news Dart is in talks with Sepa about giving up its fracking permits at Canonbie, there's nothing to stop it applying again in the future."
http://www.scotsman.com/business/management/dart-makes-fracking-promise-1-2983710
Water being auctioned for millions of dollars in California as drought reaches extremes
Drilling for water has become more important than drilling for oil, as water banks are drained at an alarming rate.
http://www.sott.net/article/281419-Water-being-auctioned-for-millions-of-dollars-in-California-as-drought-reaches-extremes
We call on Somerset County Council to reject all planning applications for exploration, appraisal or production of shale gas and other unconventional gas.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-fracking-in-somerset?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1402604886
Netpol to monitor the policing of future anti-fracking protests
http://netpol.org/2014/07/04/jrrt-funding-fracking-protest/
MP demands answers on why waste water from fracking was dumped into the Manchester Ship Canal
http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10971603.MP_demands_answers_on_why_waste_water_from_fracking_was_dumped_into_the_Manchester_Ship_Canal/?ref=rss
Wastewater from energy extraction 'triggers US quake surge'
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says there are more U.S. jobs in solar industry than coal mining
http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2014/jul/06/sheldon-whitehouse/there-are-already-more-american-jobs-solar-industr/?utm_content=buffer81366&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The Oilman's Wife's Story
http://www.dorseteye.com/north/articles/the-oilman-s-wife-s-story
Study maps fracking methane risk to drinking water
UK's complex geology will pose fracking challenges, developers warned
New underground maps show shale gas deposits overlapping with major drinking water aquifers
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/03/uk-complex-geology-challenge-fracking-drinking-water
BGS maps help understand relationship between groundwater and fracking.
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/docs/aquifersAndShales_FINAL.pdf
UNION CALLS FOR HALT TO FRACKING
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2679302/UNION-CALLS-FOR-HALT-TO-FRACKING.html
How much money can we make from fracking Britain?
New York communities win over fracking
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2014/ny-communities-triumph-over-fracking-industry-in-precedent-setting-case
What does fracking look like in full-production?
This fly-over North East Pennsylvania, where thousands of wells have been drilled, does the job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2UBu-EBG7I
Professor Anthony Ingraffea (Cornell University) describes the threat that this intensity of drilling poses.
You can see the talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJHfkqHJZE
Fracking - you are not important
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2450429/fracking_you_are_not_important.html
Go directly to jail card for protesters
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/go-directly-to-jail-card-for-protesters/story-fnj4f7k1-1226963182804
Falkirk gas wells to release 5 tonnes of methane a day
http://riclander.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/falkirk-gas-wells-to-release-5-tonnes-of-methane-a-day/
British Medical Association votes to divest from fossil fuels
http://treealerts.org/region/europe/2014/06/british-medical-association-votes-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels/
At last BBC politics show sticks it to pro frackers ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvuW7hRwxOU&feature=youtu.be
Govtoday and Securing the Future are delighted to announce Fracking North:
Continuing the Debate on Hydraulic Fracturing for Gas. Due to the high demand and huge success of this event in London in May this year,
http://www.fracking-conferencenorth.co.uk/event-home
Why Are Four In Ten High-Risk Oil And Gas Wells Not Being Inspected?
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/23/3451919/high-risk-oil-and-gas-wells-not-inspected/
Texas Utility Doubles Large-Scale Solar, Says It Will Be Coal-Free By 2016
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/17/3449604/texas-utility-solar/
Texas gas town considers banning fracking
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/texas-gas-town-considers-banning-055003422.html
Fracking regulation: are England World Cup winners or out in the quarter-finals?
http://www.foe.co.uk/blog/fracking-regulation-are-england-world-cup-winners-or-out-quarter-finals
Vivienne Westwood on fashion and fracking: 'Who are the people who run the world? I'll tell you...'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/vivienne-westwood-on-fashion-and-fracking-who-are-the-people-who-run-the-world-ill-tell-you-9509777.html
'We are open to fracking', says leading environmental group
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10465022/We-are-open-to-fracking-says-leading-environmental-group.html?fb
Preferred candidate for new Environment Agency Chair announced
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/preferred-candidate-for-new-environment-agency-chair-announced
Proposed Environment Agency chief headed key fracking industry contractor
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/national-news/124762-govts-choice-of-environment-agency-chair-is-fracking-industry-advisor.html
Middlesex County bans fracking; first in NJ
http://www.northjersey.com/news/middlesex-county-bans-fracking-first-in-nj-1.666253
Demand for Full Fracking Chemical Disclosure
http://petitions.moveon.org/environmental-action/sign/demand-for-full-fracking-1.fb51?source=s.fb&r_by=8042578
Fracking protesters lobby Burnley politicians
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/burnley/11263956._/
Canadians Scientists Discover That Old Gas Wells Leak. A Lot. Forfrackingever.
http://www.nofrackingway.us/2014/06/05/canadians-scientists-discover-that-old-gas-wells-leak-a-lot-forfrackingever/
Why Shale Saves The Day This Hurricane Season
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Shale-Saves-The-Day-This-Hurricane-Season.html
Caroline Lucas on Queen's Speech: "It could have set a brave new agenda - instead it let people down"
http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/06/04/caroline-lucas-on-queens-speech-it-could-have-set-a-brave-new-agenda-instead-it-let-people-down/
Fracking access proposals a concern for landowners
http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/latest-news/fracking-access-proposals-a-concern-for-landowners/65009.article
HM Government e-petition Fracking and Pollution Responsibility
Chairman of East Kent Against Fracking sent open letter to the leader of KCC
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/campaigner-calls-for-fracking-talks-18141/
Queen's Speech 2014: what it means for you
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/queens-speech-2014-what-it-means-for-you/queens-speech-2014-what-it-means-for-you
'Stick your new world order' fracking protest singer Darren Nesbitt banned from Beverley
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Stick-new-world-order-fracking-protest-singer/story-21191800-detail/story.html
8 amazing and incredible renewable energy projects that we totally love
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/8-amazing-and-incredible-renewables-projects-we-totally-love-20140604
Activists stage fracking protest at David Cameron's home
Signs to drill under PM's cottage in Cotswold put up to protest against trespass law changes expected in Queen's speech
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/fracking-protest-david-cameron-home-queens-speech
Fracking Protest At Prime Minister's Home
David Cameron is being accused of preparing to auction off over half of Britain to the frackers, including national park areas.
http://news.sky.com/story/1275148/fracking-protest-at-prime-ministers-home
Fracking risk to drinking water greater in Britain than United States, warns expert
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fracking-risk-drinking-water-greater-3643966#.U49Q0-xTxa0.facebook
We will fight fracking law extension, says SDLP MP Alasdair McDonnell
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/we-will-fight-fracking-law-extension-says-sdlp-mp-alasdair-mcdonnell-30330221.html
David Cameron's house 'fracked' by protesters
Greenpeace activists turn the Prime Minister's country home in Oxfordshire into a 'fracking site' in protest at new pro-drilling laws
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10874055/David-Camerons-house-fracked-by-protesters.html
Queen's speech shale gas proposals fail to address landowner concerns
http://www.farminguk.com/news/Queen-s-speech-shale-gas-proposals-fail-to-address-landowner-concerns_30152.html
STOP CAMERON'S NEW FRACKING LAW!
David Cameron wants to change the law so fracking companies can drill under our homes without permission.
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/stop-fracking-law?source=em&subsource=20140604fraem03&utm_source=gpeace&utm_medium=em&utm_campaign=20140604fraem03
Analysis: Why we can't choose fracking
http://blog.cat.org.uk/2014/05/16/review-why-we-cant-have-fracking/
Ease fracking laws or we'll pull out, warns Cuadrilla
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/naturalresources/article4105221.ece
Silent rooftop wind turbines could generate half of a household's energy needs
http://www.treehugger.com/wind-technology/silent-wind-turbines-could-generate-half-household-energy.html
100% Green Electricity and Britain's Greenest Gas, complete with our Frack Free promise.
http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/for-your-home
Show us the money if countries are to curb climate change: IEA
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/06/03/show-us-the-money-if-countries-are-to-curb-climate-change-iea/
STOP FRACKING IN SOMERSET
Sign the petition to the European Commission.
http://action.sumofus.org/a/tar-sands-europe/?sub=tw
Search for shale gas heads east as IGas plans fracking in East Midlands
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10868717/Search-for-shale-gas-heads-east-as-IGas-plans-fracking-in-East-Midlands.html
Further update on property insurance and potential damage caused by fracking
http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk/latest-news/further-update-on-property-insurance-and-potential-damage-caused-by-fracking/
Is fracking a mortal threat to our livestock?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/is-fracking-a-mortal-threat-to-our-livestock-8822745.html
Oil and gas wells and their integrity: Implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation
https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/refine/Publishedversion.pdf
Small housing developers exempt from 'zero carbon' home regulations
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/10868579/Small-housing-developers-exempt-from-zero-carbon-home-regulations.html
Solar farms to lose UK government financial support
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/13/solar-farms-lose-uk-government-financial-support-subsidies
Fracking trespass law changes opposed by 74% of British public, poll finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/06/fracking-trespass-law-changes-opposed-by-74-of-britons
Open consultation Underground Drilling Access
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/underground-drilling-access
Why Natural Gas is a Bridge to Nowhere
http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/31/natural-gas-bridge-to-nowhere/
Hydrogeologist, Graham Warren's recent report on the dangers of fracking in the Weald
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/05/23/Fracking_southeast_England_for_oil_may_be_pointless/
4.4bn barrels of oil' in Weald basin - report
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/fracking-report-billions-barrels-oil-government-cynicism
Read about Dart's plans for Cheshire, Wrexham and Notts
http://frack-off.org.uk/dart-frack-attack-multi-well-program-in-midlands/
New UK fracking licenses confirmed
http://frack-off.org.uk/new-uk-fracking-licenses-confirmed/
Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2417288/fracking_as_bad_for_climate_as_coal_uks_dodgy_dossier_exposed.html
Councillor: 'I am not a cheerleader for fracking'
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/frodsham-councillor-denies-backing-fracking-7184826
Loopholes Enable Industry to Evade Rules on Dumping Radioactive Fracking Waste
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/02/loopholes-enable-industry-evade-rules-dumping-radioactive-fracking-waste
New Environmentalists Are Taking Bold Action - It's Working
http://ecology.iww.org/node/481
4 Worker Fatalities Linked to Used Fracking Fluid Exposure
Fracking: Government plans to grant a new 'right' of corporate trespass threatens UK homeowners
http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/06/02/fracking-government-plans-to-grant-a-new-%E2%80%98right%E2%80%99-of-corporate-trespass-threatens-uk-homeowners/
A typical five minutes in rural Pennsylvania since hydro fracking gas well drilling had come to town. And they said we would never even know they were here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj3bUKvk3qc&app=desktop
We, the undersigned physicians, nurses, researchers and public health professionals, write to
update you on the alarming trends in the data regarding the health and community impacts of
drilling and fracking for natural gas.
http://concernedhealthny.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Medical-Experts-to-Governor-Cuomo-May-29FINAL.pdf
Straight From The Horse's Mouth': Former Oil Exec Says Fracking Not Safe
http://www.mintpressnews.com/straight-horses-mouth-former-oil-exec-says-fracking-safe/189555/
Letters: Fracking's opponents are being demonised
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/letters-frackings-opponents-are-being-demonised-9339503.html
FRACKING ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states
http://www.alternet.org/environment/4-worker-fatalities-linked-used-fracking-fluid-exposure
Stop U.S. Gas Exports Expansion
http://www.energy-reality.org/action/radioactive-waste-pit/
UK shale deals make Egdon Resources a takeover target, says VSA Capital
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/68913/uk-shale-deals-make-egdon-resources-a-takeover-target-says-vsa-capital-68913.html
This fracking zeal overshadows the perfect energy solution – solar
Leonie Greene
The government ignores the drawbacks to shale gas, while its erratic policies around solar frustrate budding entrepreneurs
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/25/fracking-energy-solution-solar-shale-gas
Planning for Climate Change Adaptation
http://courses.cat.org.uk/sustainable-living/planning-for-climate-change-adaptation-detail
Fracking in Tunbridge Wells: 'Where is it going to stop?'
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/fracking-in-tunbridge-wells-where-is-it-going-to-stop
In Stunning Backtrack, Feds Say Our Largest Shale Oil Reserve Is Mostly Un-Drillable
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/21/3439944/monterey-shale-undrillable/
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/06/fracking-trespass-law-changes-opposed-by-74-of-britons
5/27/2014 — COLORADO 4 MILE LONG LANDSLIDE @ FRACKING OPERATION
http://dutchsinse.tatoott1009.com/5272014-4-mile-long-landslide-at-colorado-fracking-operation/
Elias: New numbers should ease intensity of fracking drive, debate
http://www.theunion.com/opinion/11574141-113/fracking-oil-shale-california
The Gross Society: We're Entering an Age of Energy Impoverishment
www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/gross-society-entering-age-energy-impoverishment-79381/#.U4MyT-WOZ3Q.facebook
'Farmers must be protected from fracking liability'
http://www.fwi.co.uk/articles/27/05/2014/144722/39farmers-must-be-protected-from-fracking-liability39.htm
Finally the BBC mentions chemicals, water contamination, unsubstantiated press releases, and democracy in relation to fracking,
AND THE FACT THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN FRACKING IN SOUTH ENGLAND AND SONOT ON WYTCH FARM :
Fracking industry must prove current access system doesn't work
http://www.farminguk.com/news/Fracking-industry-must-prove-current-access-system-doesn-t-work_30092.html
Dutch Government to Pay $1.6 Billion in Gas Extraction Damages
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-17/dutch-government-to-pay-1-6-billion-in-gas-extraction-damages.html
The New "Water Barons": Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World's Water
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274
The Weald Report - Swan Song for Onshore Fracking?
http://frackingdigest.co.uk/weald.htm
In Landmark Class Action, Farmers Insurance Sues Local Governments For Ignoring Climate Change
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/19/3439048/insurance-climate-class-action-flood/
Caroline Lucas takes on IGas CEO over fracking - Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd1aM9Gw278
No shale gas potential in Weald basin, concludes British Geological Survey
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/no-shale-gas-potential-weald-british-geological-survey-oil
Caroline Lucas: Fracking won't reduce energy bills
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-05-23/caroline-lucas-fracking-wont-reduce-energy-bills/
Walkington anti-fracking camp: People shout 'get a job'. We have jobs, but this is more important
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Walkington-anti-fracking-camp-People-shout-job/story-21132552-detail/story.html?dwrMeth=addComment&afterReg=Y
Read more: http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Walkington-anti-fracking-camp-People-shout-job/story-21132552-detail/story.html?dwrMeth=addComment&afterReg=Y#ixzz32dXaL6tD
Read more at http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Walkington-anti-fracking-camp-People-shout-job/story-21132552-detail/story.html?dwrMeth=addComment&afterReg=Y#0LOX0arZhvgGvFtH.99
Fracking: shock and awe will not win the battle of Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2014/may/23/fracking-shock-and-awe-will-not-win-the-battle-of-britain?CMP=twt_gu
Fracking planned for Tory heartlands as report reveals billions of barrels of shale oil in southern England
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/10850529/Fracking-planned-for-Tory-heartlands-as-report-reveals-billions-of-barrels-of-shale-oil-in-southern-England.html
74% of Britons oppose @David_Cameron's plans to trespass and #frack our homes. So he waited.
https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceUK/status/469816845630181377/photo/1
Groundbreaking Report Calculates Damage Done by Fracking
http://ecowatch.com/2013/10/03/report-calculates-damage-by-fracking/
European Elections 2014: What's Firing the Green Surge
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/natalie-bennett/european-elections-2014_b_5364482.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Pope Francis Makes Biblical Case For Addressing Climate Change: 'If We Destroy Creation, Creation Will Destroy Us'
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/21/3440075/pope-francis-if-we-destroy-creation-creation-will-destroy-us/
Could the Greens provide the real upset of the European elections?
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2014/05/22/could-the-greens-provide-the-real-upset-of-the-european-elec
Testimony of a CSG worker #auspol
http://coalseamgasnews.org/news/world/testimony-of-a-csg-worker-auspol/
An Open Letter to Mark Abbott, Managing Director of Egdon Resources.
http://biffvernon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/an-open-letter-to-mark-abbott-managing.html
Huge oil reserves in southern England, report to say
Fracking compensation to be increased
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/23/fracking-compensation-increase-quell-opposition
Esa's Cryosat mission sees Antarctic ice losses double
Christiana Figueres St Paul's Cathedral speech - in full
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/2343646/christiana-figueres-st-paul-s-cathedral-speech-in-full
Former Mobil Oil exec urges brakes on gas fracking
http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Former-Mobil-Oil-exec-urges-brakes-on-gas-fracking-5422292.php
Corruption revealed of Frack giant ('Rathlin') Director Dermot Nesbitt
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2014/05/516713.html
Sir David King: "Climate change is not the biggest challenge of our time, it's the biggest challenge of all time"
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/james-blog/2342417/sir-david-king-climate-change-is-not-the-biggest-challenge-of-our-time-its-the-biggest-challenge-of-all-time
Catastrophe' Claim Adds Fuel to Methane Debate
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/fracking-methane-emissions-catastrophe-17439
IPCC reports 'diluted' under 'political pressure' to protect fossil fuel interests
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/may/15/ipcc-un-climate-reports-diluted-protect-fossil-fuel-interests
Anti-fracking campaigners set up camp outside oil drilling site at Crawberry Hill, Walkington
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Anti-fracking-campaigners-set-camp-outside-oil/story-21088138-detail/story.html#6lKlPRiiCqYtfmFU.01
The Intersection Between Hydraulic Fracturing and Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTaPigA17RY&feature=youtu.be
Russia and China announce decoupling trade from Dollar - The End for the USA is nigh?
http://www.sott.net/article/277104-Russia-and-China-announce-decoupling-trade-from-Dollar-The-End-for-the-USA-is-nigh%E2%80%8F
Shale well leaks during drilling process, forcing evacuations in Morgan County
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/05/07/Morgan-County-fracking-well-leaking-since-Sunday.html
The Noble Lords are wrong - fracking is a dead end for Britain
http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2390680/the_noble_lords_are_wrong_fracking_is_a_dead_end_for_britain.html
What energy interests do the House of Lord's economic affairs committee have?
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/news/who-are
Young People Are Taking the Government to Court Over Its Failure to Address Climate Change
http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/28/young-people-are-taking-the-government-to-court-over-its-failure-to-address-climate-change/
National parks to be opened up for fracking
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/fracking/article1409365.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_05_10
House of Lords committee calls for fracking to be 'national priority'
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/08/energy-industry-shale-gas
German Environment Minister who oppose fracking
https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sueddeutsche.de%2Fpolitik%2Fgasfoerderung-deutsche-umweltminister-stellen-sich-gegen-fracking-1.1957770&edit-text=
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFosQtEqzSE&noredirect=1
David JC MacKayhttp://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/sewtha.pdf
Compensation for fracking must be adequate, says CLA
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/business/compensation-fracking-must-adequate-says-7087539
BRITAIN AND IRELAND FRACK FREE - good website for info on fracking
www.britainirelandfrackfree.co.uk
Fracking group IGas to acquire £117m rival
http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/north-west/114316-fracking-group-igas-acquire-dart-energy?utm_source=breaking_news_newsletter&utm_medium=top_story_article&utm_campaign=breaking_news_tracker
Investigating Balcombe and Cuadrilla
http://investigatingbalcombeandcuadrilla.com/2014/05/08/letter-reveals-that-cuadrilla-planned-to-frack-in-the-balcombe-area-of-the-sussex-weald/
FRACKING MAY INDUCE QUAKES AT GREATER DISTANCE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
http://e360.yale.edu/digest/fracking_may_induce_quakes_at_greater_distance_than_previously_thought/4139/?utm_content=buffercf669&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Fracking In The Everglades, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
http://www.beachpeanuts.com/2014/01/just-what-florida-needs-contaminated-water-earthquakes-and-more-sinkholes.html
You will not escape your shame or our suffering - a letter to the Lords and beyond. By Jenny Ross.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/biff-britain-ireland-frack-free/you-will-not-escape-your-shame-or-our-suffering-a-letter-to-the-lords-and-beyond/872142412811785
EU-US trade deal: Big Energy's backdoor plan to expand fracking
https://www.wdm.org.uk/climate-change/eu-us-trade-deal-big-energy%E2%80%99s-backdoor-plan-expand-fracking
French energy minister promises 100,000 green jobs
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/29/us-france-ecology-employment-idUSKBN0DE0SL20140429
Fracking: Lincolnshire County Council denies conflict of interest over pension scheme investment in Total
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Fracking-Lincolnshire-County-Council-denies/story-21023835-detail/story.html
Bank accounts closed in fossil fuels protest
m.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/bank-accounts-closed-in-fossil-fuels-protest-20140502-37mu3.html
100% acquittal of anti-fracking protesters charged with public order offences at Balcombe
http://investigatingbalcombeandcuadrilla.com/2014/05/01/100-acquittal-of-anti-fracking-protesters-charged-with-public-order-offences-at-balcombe/#more-2244
Happy Mondays' Bez to stand as anti-fracking MP
http://www.energylivenews.com/2014/05/01/happy-mondays-bez-to-stand-as-anti-fracking-mp/
To My Friend the Climate Defeatist: Here's Why I'm Still In the Fight
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-04-30/to-my-friend-the-climate-defeatist-here-s-why-i-m-still-in-the-fight
Two young workers D E A D from the airshed. Co-existing near Fracking in Arlington letters
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/love-letter-to-arlington-tx-officials-re-health-risks-in-co-existing-near-frack-sites/
Argument Global Warming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ
Fracking's greatest risk is water contamination: leaked report
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/04/30/frackings-greatest-risk-is-water-contamination-leaked-report-2/
The Seismic Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes
http://time.com/84225/fracking-and-earthquake-link/
The environmental movement is kicking off down under
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-environmental-movement-is-kicking-off-down-under/
Videos, air sampling reveal Denton City's broken promises to monitor fracking pollution 1
http://frackfreedenton.com/2014/05/01/videos-air-sampling-reveal-denton-citys-broken-promises-to-monitor-fracking-pollution/
Shalefield Stories
http://www.environmentamerica.org/reports/ame/shalefield-stories
BREAKING NEWS: County council approves application for exploratory drilling in Balcombe
http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/local/breaking-news-county-council-approves-application-for-exploratory-drilling-in-balcombe-1-6027035
Countryside under threat as South Cambs earmarked for fracking if proposed Infrastructure Bill goes ahead
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Business/Business-News/Countryside-under-threat-as-South-Cambs-earmarked-for-fracking-if-Government-relaxes-access-rights-for-shale-gas-operators-20140429120501.htm
UK Residents Protest Against Fracking
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140429/189455648/UK-Residents-Protest-Against-Fracking.html
Cuadrilla gets green light for oil test at Balcombe
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/29/cuadrilla-green-light-oil-test-balcombe
FRACKING TRANSYLVANIA
http://nickhuntscrutiny.com/articles/the-green-heart-of-europe/fracking-transylvania
Helen Slottje, 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize, USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNcJjkMee4w
Beverly hills first city to pass ban of fracking
http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/24/beverly-hills-pass-fracking-ban/
National Grid threatens legal action against fracking firm Cuadrilla
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/news/national-news/124525-national-grid-threatens-legal-action-against-fracking-firm-cuadrilla.html
Halliburton refuses to disclose fracking chemicals
http://commonsensecanadian.ca/halliburton-refuses-disclose-fracking-chemicals/
Price of Gas in U.S. Rises as Refiners Export More to Other Countries
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304049904579516121276626720?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304049904579516121276626720.html
Exclusive: Local authorities have 'conflict of interest' on fracking investments
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-local-authorities-have-conflict-of-interest-on-fracking-investments-9294590.html
What the Frack?? Fracking Leads to Increase In STDs - Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G062ybpM4Cw&feature=youtu.be
The Horrendous Truth Behind Fracking
http://frackingdangerous.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/ex-mobil-oil-exec-confirms-fracking-technology-is-dangerous-and-untested/
APRIL 23, 2014 BY DENISE PATTON
Still Wondering Why The UK Government Is Determined To Frack
http://frackingdangerous.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/still-wondering-why-the-uk-government-is-determined-to-frack/
MICHAEL FALLON ANNOUNCES UK-POLAND SHALE STUDY
http://blog.decc.gov.uk/2014/04/25/michael-fallon-announces-uk-poland-shale-study/#comment-256608
Power of the people needed to stop future fracking
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/fracking-battle/story-21004176-detail/story.html
New fracking law sparks anger
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11166895.New_fracking_law_sparks_anger/
Gas patch scientists explain how hydraulic fracturing can permanently contaminate public water supplies
http://checksandbalancesproject.org/2011/05/06/gas-patch-scientists-explain-how-hydraulic-fracturing-can-permanently-contaminate-public-water-supplies/#comments
£2m for 'safe' shale gas production ideas
http://www.energylivenews.com/2014/04/25/2m-for-safe-shale-gas-production-ideas/
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA
A Study of Groundwater Quality from Domestic Wells
ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/ess_pubs/292/292762/of_7449.pdf
Why Sand Is The Latest Front In The War On Fracking (Yes, Sand)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/08/22/a-new-target-for-fracking-opponents-sand-mines/
Fallon: Fight for frack cash
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/fallon-fight-for-frack-cash-1-6580036
Shale gas: the reality behind this week's Tory rhetoric
http://labourlist.org/2014/04/shale-gas-the-reality-behind-this-weeks-tory-rhetoric/
Family awarded $3MILLION after court finds chemical exposure from fracking on land next to their home left them sick and suffering horror side effects
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611853/Family-awarded-THREE-MILLION-claiming-fracking-land-sick-verdict-kind-US.html
Fracking to deliver tens of billions to UK supply chain
the publication of a separate report mapping billions of barrels of shale oil that lie beneath the south of England has now been delayed until at least late May, The Telegraph has learnt
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10776566/Fracking-to-deliver-tens-of-billions-to-UK-supply-chain.html
Elon Musk on global warming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lvgj2D7ypA#t=173
North Dakota Finds Itself Unprepared To Handle The Radioactive Burden Of Its Fracking Boom
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/16/3427345/north-dakota-radioactive-waste-fracking/
Radioactive Waste Booms With Fracking as New Rules Mulled
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-15/radioactive-waste-booms-with-oil-as-new-rules-mulled.html
Texas Freezes Agency's Funding Over Release of Data Linking Fracking to Ozone Pollution
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/04/texas_ozone_fracking.php
M 3.2 - ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM - 2014-04-17 06:07:12 UTC
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=372825
Quantum Dot Technology Could Lead To Solar Panel Windows
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/quantum-dot-technology-could-lead-solar-panel-windows
Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania
PETITION - DAVID CAMERON: STOP FRACKING
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/choose-clean-energy-over-fracking#petition
INSPECTORS PACK OF LIES ABOUT BARTON MOSS PT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7N_qWkcyKk
With Caroline Lucas found not guilty in the fracking trial, it is time to ponder Britain's energy future
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/41351
Important website for sustainable energy in UK
http://zerocarbonbritain.com/
Mitigation of Climate Change – Part 3 of the new IPCC report
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/04/mitigation-of-climate-change-part-3-of-the-new-ipcc-report/
Green Party warns of potential fracking in Purbeck
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/10154536.Green_Party_warns_of_potential_fracking_in_Purbeck/?action=complain&cid=11142077&ref=rc
Caroline Lucas deserves a medal, not a criminal record, for opposing fracking
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/16/caroline-lucas-criminal-record-fracking-green-mp-shale-gas?CMP=fb_gu
Up To 1,000 Times More Methane Released At Gas Wells Than EPA Estimates, Study Finds
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426697/methane-vastly-underestimated/
The what, when and where of global greenhouse gas emissions: A visual summary of the IPCC's climate mitigation report
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/04/what-where-when-of-global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-three-charts/
BLOG - Biff Vernon - geologist, experienced campaigner
http://biffvernon.blogspot.co.uk/
Climate Change - Summary for Policymakers
http://report.mitigation2014.org/spm/ipcc_wg3_ar5_summary-for-policymakers_approved.pdf
UN urges huge increase in green energy to avert climate disaster
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/12/un-urges-increase-green-energy-avert-climate-disaster-uk?guni=Keyword%3Anews-grid+main-1+Main+trailblock%3AEditable+trailblock+-+news%3APosition1
Ohio confirms "probable connection" between fracking and earthquakes
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/11/ohio_confirms_probable_connection_between_fracking_and_earthquakes/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
What Do Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Indonesian Forests All Have in Common?
http://blog.ucsusa.org/what-do-star-wars-indiana-jones-and-indonesian-forests-all-have-in-common-481?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=fb
Global Warming and the Ideology of Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Climate Change
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-and-the-ideology-of-anthropogenic-human-caused-climate-change/5357415
Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/10/desmond-tutu-anti-apartheid-style-boycott-fossil-fuel-industry
Plans for Barton Moss-style drilling rig in Trafford opposed by residents
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fracking-trafford-igas-plans-barton-6949021
Global solar dominance in sight as science trumps fossil fuels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/10755598/Global-solar-dominance-in-sight-as-science-trumps-fossil-fuels.html
Giant Marble Harvests Energy from Sun and Moon
http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/rawlemon-globe-harvests-energy-sun-moon-120918.htm#mkcpgn=fbsci1
Tipping Point for Climate Action?
http://biffvernon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/tipping-point-for-climate-action.html
Why US fracking companies are licking their lips over Ukraine
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/us-fracking-companies-climate-change-crisis-shock-doctrine
IPCC explores the ethics and economics of fighting climate change
OIL CONSULTANT TURNED WHISTLEBLOWER EXPOSES FRACKING CRIMES IN ALBERTA
http://ecocidealert.com/?p=4320&utm_content=buffer71ba7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
BT, Shell and corporates call for trillion tonnes of carbon to stay in the ground
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/08/bt-shell-corporates-trillion-tonnes-carbon
Wrexham fracking plans run out of gas
http://dailywales.net/2014/04/04/wrexham-fracking-plans-run-out-of-gas/
U.S. natural gas exports poised for takeoff despite debate
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/07/us-natural-gas-exports-to-begin/7204925/
The Debate on Hydraulic Fracturing for Gas in the UK
http://www.securingthefuture.co.uk/forum/58-fracking/2511-the-debate-on-hydraulic-fracturing-for-gas?user&passw
Rising to the Challenge of Our Time, Together: Introducing The Climate Mobilization
http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/
Shale industry faces global reality check
Germany's Environment Minister: Make Fracking Illegal
http://www.popularresistance.org/germanys-environment-minister-make-fracking-illegal/
Gas chief Andrew Austin: Fracking in East Midlands could provide 'big prize'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26910718
http://investigatingbalcombeandcuadrilla.com/2014/04/07/public-order-act-charges-thrown-out-in-ant-fracking-protest-case/
Anti-fracking petition signed by 3,000 sparks debate at high-level town hall meeting
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/anti-fracking-petition-signed-3000-sparks-6925754
Zero Carbon Britain Event 9th April: Join us online here!
http://blog.cat.org.uk/2014/04/04/zero-carbon-britain-event-9th-april-join-us-online-here/
First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes for Good
http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/first-official-climate-change-refugees-evacuate-their-island-homes-for-good.html
Public meeting to discuss shallow fracking dangers
http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local-news/public-meeting-to-discuss-shallow-fracking-dangers-1-5977543
Fracking song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMCUC6hSKZ8
Headteacher's fears over gas test drill site
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/upton-by-chester-high-school-headteachers-fears-6645411
PA DEP to Study Radiation Related to Marcellus Shale
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/01/24/pa-dep-to-study-radiation-related-to-marcellus-shale/
UN's Top Climate Change Official Calls on Oil and Gas Industry to Undertake Radical Transformation towards New, Sustainable Energy Mix
http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_releases_advisories/application/pdf/pr20140304_ipieca.pdf
Sonnenschiff: Solar City Produces 4X the Energy it Consumes
http://inhabitat.com/sonnenschiff-solar-city-produces-4x-the-energy-it-needs/
"We Have to Consume Less": Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/21/we_have_to_consume_less_scientists
Caroline Lucas: 'I didn't do this because I thought it was fun'
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/04/caroline-lucas-interview-anti-fracking-balcombe-climate-change-air-pollution
EUROPE DOESN'T NEED AMERICA'S FRACKED NATURAL GAS
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/europe-russia-naturalgasenergy.html
IPIECA 40th Anniversary conference
London, 3 April 2014
business as usual across the fossil fuel
industry no longer exists, due to both physical boundaries and policy realities
http://unfccc.int/files/press/statements/application/pdf/20140204_ipieca.pdf
Tina Louise's Speech at the Mother's Against Fracking Rally 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39uzL2vlZlk
House Dems Want EPA to Reopen Investigation on Fracking
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/House-Dems-Want-EPA-to-Reopen-Investigation-on-Fracking.html
Britain Confronts Gas Mother Lode With Fracking by Lord Browne
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-02/britain-confronts-gas-mother-lode-with-fracking-by-lord-browne.html
Scientist David King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_King_(chemist)
Fracking to go ahead under homes even if owners object
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4051844.ece
Lincolnshire solar energy farm will be 'UK's largest'
http://www.smallholder.co.uk/news/11123035.Lincolnshire_solar_energy_farm_will_be__UK_s_largest_/
Government & BBC must improve climate communication
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/140401-climate-report-published/
UN - climate 'perfect storm' is already here. Time to slay Zombie Big Oil
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/apr/03/ipcc-un-climate-change-perfect-storm-zombie-oil
Fracking must start by end of year, says Cameron: PM wants Britain to reduce dependence on Russian gas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589417/Fracking-start-end-year-says-Cameron-PM-wants-Britain-reduce-dependence-Russian-gas.html
What are the impacts of fracking? Show: The Pat Kenny Show
http://www.newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/The_Pat_Kenny_Show/The_Pat_Kenny_Show_Highlights/43235/0/what_are_the_impacts_of_fracking
DECC report, evaluation, comments
https://econsultation.decc.gov.uk/
Oil well safety warning for fracking
NEW FILM ABOUT FRACKING - Published on 11 Mar 2014
This is an 8 minute cut of Wyoming rancher John Fenton's presentation at Casino, northern NSW Australia on 25 Feb 2014. John has a terrible story to tell about the effects of invasive gasfields on his property and family and explains how to avoid the same thing happening to you and your community.
http://youtu.be/_b8s1JkkvxI
Treasury BUDGET 2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293759/37630_Budget_2014_Web_Accessible.pdf
Page 35, 1.116: The government is committing to work with the oil and gas industry to ensure that
the UK has the right skills and supply chain in place to benefit from the huge potential of the
country's oil and gas reserves. This will be crucial not only to ensure the UK benefits fully from
its shale gas reserves, but also the offshore oil and gas fields – including new high pressure, high
temperature projects – and to make the UK's oil and gas supply chain world leading, creating
local jobs and growth across the UK.
Global warming to hit Asia hardest, warns new report on climate change
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/22/global-warming-hit-asia-hardest
The climate change deniers have won
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/22/climate-change-deniers-have-won-global-warming?CMP=fb_gu
40ft-deep hole drains Stockport park lake of water
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/large-hole-suddenly-drains-lake-6860115
Owen Paterson held urgent meeting for fracking boss, documents show
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/21/owen-paterson-urgent-meeting-fracking-cuadrilla-lord-browne
George Osborne is preparing to kill off Britain's renewable energy revolution
http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/mar/20/george-osborne-budget-kill-renewable-energy-revolution-tax-break
Regulation Lax as Gas Wells' Tainted Water Hits Rivers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
Fossil Fuel Giants Guzzling World's Water as Poor Go Thirsty: UN
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/21-2
Fracking 'could harm wildlife'
Ban fracking in national parks, says the National Trust
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/10693722/Ban-fracking-in-national-parks-says-the-National-Trust.html?fb
Fracking shame: Full threat to British wildlife is laid bare in a new report showing up to half the country could be licensed for shale gas extraction
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/fracking-shame-the-full-threat-to-british-wildlife-is-laid-bare-in-a-new-report-showing-up-to-18-per-cent-of-the-country-could-be-licensed-for-shale-gas-extraction-9187824.html
Active fracking sites in the UK
http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-sites/
Fracking hell?
Photo series follows families who say their lives and communities have been destroyed by the industry
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560235/Stunning-photos-impact-fracking-small-rural-Pennsylvania-communities.html
A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water
Californian almond farm ruined by fracking company operations
http://www.frackaware.com/wordpress/?p=1829
Fracking is depleting water supplies in America's driest areas, report shows
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/fracking-water-america-drought-oil-gas
A remarkably accurate global warming prediction, made in 1972
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972
Welcome to the largest anti-#fracking rally in California history!
https://twitter.com/david_turnbull/status/444931257080627200/photo/1
http://wethepeopleuk.webs.com/
Mark Ruffalo on the Fracking Fight
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/mark-ruffalo-on-the-fracking-fight-20120516
Testimony Reveals Record 36% of North Dakota Fracked Gas Was Flared in December
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/10/record-36-precent-nd-fracked-gas-flared-dec-reveals-house-subcommittee-testimony
Wastewater Injection Triggered Oklahoma's Earthquake Cascade
http://www.livescience.com/43953-wastewater-injection-earthquake-triggering.html
1500 MARCH AGAINST FRACKING IN MANCHESTER
http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=2185
Fracking protester, 82, 'shocked to the core' by Greater Manchester Police's behaviour at Barton Moss
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/fracking-protester-82-shocked-core-6788246
Study: Hydrofracking sickening animals, people
www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/study-hydrofracking-sickening-animals-people/
Fracking contamination more common than US states report, says new review
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/drilling-pollution-complaints-state-reports-pennsylvania
Dream of U.S. Oil Independence Slams Against Shale Costs
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/dream-of-u-s-oil-independence-slams-against-shale-costs.html
Underwater Tidal Kites Are Producing Large Amounts Of Electricity Off The Coast Of Northern Ireland
http://www.minds.com/blog/view/250900061095989248/underwater-tidal-kites-are-producing-large-amounts-of-electricity-off-the-coast-of-northern-ireland
Bad air from fracking
http://stories.weather.com/fracking
Scotland Zips Past U.S. on Road to 100 Percent Renewable Energy by 2020
http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/24/scotland-road-100-percent-renewable-energy-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scotland-road-100-percent-renewable-energy-2020
PEEL HOLDINGS BEAST EXPOSED IN SALFORD AND LIVERPOOL
Insurance shock for Wells home owners
http://www.wellsjournal.co.uk/Insurance-shock-Wells-home-owners/story-20659325-detail/story.html
Truth About Fracking - Wes Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7XgoekcrBw&feature=share
Fracking: It could be coming to YOUR back yard...
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/fracking-could-coming-your-merseyside-6713380
Greenhouse gas emissions from the UK
www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/feb/18/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-the-uk
Fracking hell? Photo series follows families who say their lives and communities have been destroyed by the industry
Anti-fracking protesters refuse to move after being told to leave by land owners Peel
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/salford-barton-moss-anti-fracking-protesters-6713838
BREAKING NEWS: Huge Sinkhole Appears in Hemel Hempstead
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/breaking-news-huge-sinkhole-appears-hemel-hempstead-1436568
MOUNTING EVIDENCE: THE HARM CAUSED BY FRACKING
http://frack-off.org.uk/mounting-evidence-the-harm-caused-by-fracking/
UK Shale Gas Potential and Perspectives
http://euanmearns.com/uk-shale-gas-potential-and-perspectives/
Flooding and storms in UK are clear signs of climate change, says Lord Stern
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/flooding-storms-uk-climate-change-lord-stern
1 missing, 1 hurt in natural gas well explosion in Greene County
http://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/5575457-74/dispatcher-county-emergency#axzz2tD3eEsKy
Gas explosion sets homes on fire in central Kentucky
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/13/us/kentucky-fire/
US Solar Industry Records Explosive Growth in Third Quarter
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/12/u-s-solar-industry-records-explosive-growth-in-third-quarter
THE WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR PLANT OPENED TODAY
http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/02/13/the-worlds-largest-solar-plant-opened-today/?utm_source=gpusfb&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=energy
BP cancelled fracking
http://marcellusdrilling.com/2013/01/bp-cancels-deal-for-7-of-alov-leases-in-trumbull-county-oh/
Good Life Project
http://www.goodlifeproject.com/
Explosion at Fracking Well Sparks Fire Set to Rage for Days
Welsh MPs on fact-finding mission to shale gas site
Anti-fracking protester to sue police over 'trumped-up' drink arrest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5m0c9mX7RM&feature=youtu.be
Is the lord of the manor planning to dig up your garden?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/10467955/Is-the-lord-of-the-manor-planning-to-dig-up-your-garden.html
REG High Down – construction on schedule!
http://blog.abundancegeneration.com/2014/02/turbine-successfully-installed-at-reg-high-down/
Vince Cable: shale gas won't be a reality in UK for at least a decade
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/04/vince-cable-shale-gas-uk-fracking?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
This is the fracking truth
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/17/fracking-aquifers-tap-water
Police Psychopath Caught on Camera Framing Innocent Fracking Protester for DUI
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/03/police-psychopath-caught-on-camera-framing-innocent-fracking-protester-for-dui/
Police powers finally kettled by High Court
http://netpol.org/2013/06/18/police-powers-finally-kettled-by-high-court/
Ex-BP oil disaster and fracking executive to lead big government projects
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/03/bp-oil-disaster-fracking-executive-hs2-john-manzoni
Barton Moss fracking: For and against
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-25713163
Help Falkirk fight the Dash-for-Gas. Don't wait till it's at your door!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB0pxFH9EeU
Fracking Vs The Environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Dsu4HDU-Q
Sussex landowners mount 'legal blockade' against fracking
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8szNPgrEs
Incidents where hydraulic fracturing is a suspected cause of drinking water contamination
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall/incidents_where_hydraulic_frac.html
Salford homes' water supply cut off or discoloured
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/salford-homes-water-supply-cut-6660070
Fracking: "Helpful or harmful?" - public debate in Hassocks packed out
http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/local/fracking-helpful-or-harmful-public-debate-in-hassocks-packed-out-1-5837909
£4m cost of Balcombe police operation 'value for money' says chief constable
http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/local/4m-cost-of-balcombe-police-operation-value-for-money-says-chief-constable-1-5836588
We should be fracking all over the UK, says Paterson: Environment Secretary says Britain must cash in on shale gas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2547785/We-fracking-UK-says-Paterson-Environment-Secretary-says-Britain-cash-shale-gas.html#ixzz2rmPUt1ri
BP quits Islandmagee Storage's Larne Lough gas plan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25929655
The truth about renewable energy storage
http://www.goodenergy.co.uk/blog/articles/2014/01/28/the-truth-about-renewable-energy-storage
Pete Seeger & Onondaga Leader Oren Lyons on Fracking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hFVxrnlyQ#t=238
Coalbed methane and fracking 'unregulatable' says toxins expert
http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/node/1606
Cuadrilla 'not hiding' fracking plans at Balcombe site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qhgn3
Public support for fracking in Britain falls for a second time
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/28/fracking-protest-david-cameron-public-support-poll?commentpage=1
Fracking firms 'should pay £6bn a year tax to compensate for climate change'
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/26/fracking-firms-tax-compensate-climate-change
Frackquake in West Texas today
by TXSHARON on JANUARY 27, 2014
http://www.texassharon.com/2014/01/27/frackquake-in-west-texas-today/
What happened to DCNR's $6 million Marcellus monitoring report?
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2014/01/26/what-happened-to-dcnrs-6-million-marcellus-monitoring-report/
Fracking Waste: Too Toxic, Even For A Hazardous Waste Site
http://planetsave.com/2013/04/30/fracking-waste-too-toxic-even-for-a-hazardous-waste-site/#BJi3TQyw6P6wiXFu.99
Caudrilla withdraws applications to frack in Lancashire after encountering problems with radioactive waste disposal
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/caudrilla-withdraws-applications-to-frack-in-lancashire-after-encountering-problems-with-radioactive-waste-disposal-9088986.html
In brief: The EU's new 2030 climate and energy package
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/01/in-brief-the-eu%E2%80%99s-new-2030-climate-and-energy-package-(1)/
The truth about David Cameron's fracking fairytale, by Chris Huhne
Cameron's story about how shale gas will save the British economy is demonstrably and devastatingly false
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/26/truth-david-cameron-fracking-fairytale-shale-gas?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Vanessa Vine Versus MP Peter Lilley, ITN - 26/1/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_DbM1_z0w
MP Peter Lilley has received more than $400,000 in oil company share options
Analysis shows full extent of climate sceptic's financial interests in oil industry and places committee role under further scrutiny
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/20/peter-lilley-oil-company-shares
North East Lincolnshire MPs divided over David Cameron's pro-fracking policies
http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/North-East-Lincolnshire-MPs-divided-David-Cameron/story-20484865-detail/story.html#ixzz2rMHj5qUw
Huge trucks at Barton Moss + police brutality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFtx4Q0VNk#t=253
Law could be changed to allow fracking below houses without owners' permission
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/law-could-be-changed-to-allow-fracking-below-houses-without-owners-permission-9086650.html
Fracking fears over waste water could delay plans
Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt
http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt
North Dorset councillors urge government to scrap "deplorable" fracking incentive
http://www.blackmorevale.co.uk/North-Dorset-councillors-urge-government-scrap/story-20445457-detail/story.html
Fracking has conquered the US. But here's why it can't happen in Britain
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/why-fracking-wont-work-in-britain
EU climate chief: Forget US-style shale gas revolution
http://routemag.com/2013/05/16/eu-climate-chief-forget-shale/
SCIENCE, DEMOCRACY, AND COMMUNITY
Decisions on Fracking
A LEWIS M. BRANSCOMB FORUM
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/center-for-science-and-democracy/Decisions_On_Fracking_Forum_Summary.pdf
Think Global Green International about hydraulic fracturing - science and risks explained
http://www.thinkglobalgreen.org/fracking.html
List of Bans Worldwide
http://keeptapwatersafe.org/global-bans-on-fracking/
Carbon Tracker Initiative
http://www.carbontracker.org/unburnable-carbon#
Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy - about fracking
http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/site/show_list/id/13
Nearly half of public 'oppose fracking within 10 miles of their home'
www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10574243/Nearly-half-of-public-oppose-fracking-within-10-miles-of-their-home.html
Energy Companies Always Say Fracking is 100% Safe. This Report Just Debunked That.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/78935/energy-companies-always-say-fracking-is-100-safe-this-report-just-debunked-that
Global Energy Initiative
http://globalenergyinitiative.org/
Europe Opens Its Doors to Fracking
http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/22/europe-opens-doors-fracking/
Property advice: Certificate of Lawful Existing Use or Development
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertyadvice/propertyclinic/5917484/Property-advice-Certificate-of-Lawful-Existing-Use-or-Development.html
The Hawkwoods' story - film about a farm and fracking
http://albertavoices.ca/stories/thehawkwoods/
Jose Bove, French MEP, pledges to help Britons resist Total fracking
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/20/green-mep-total-fracking-shale-gas?CMP=twt_gu
BBC interview with Frence MEP Jose Bove
400 gather at anti-fracking rally
French MEP José Bové
http://news.uk.msn.com/400-gather-at-anti-fracking-rally
French MEP José Bové Talking in Balcombe
Rebecca Harms, German MEP, Talking in Balcombe & Q&A session with Jose Bove
Kat Boettge Sunday Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjNP_Acwi4&feature=youtu.be
BBC - Could unregulated fracking soon be a reality around the region?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071mqm
Shale gas 'boom' is a long way off, claim experts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/10585296/Shale-gas-boom-is-a-long-way-off-claim-experts.html?fb
EU Wants Common Rules for Shale Gas 'Fracking'
http://www.industryweek.com/energy-management/eu-wants-common-rules-shale-gas-fracking?eid=forward
http://www.policymic.com/articles/78935/energy
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-10/epa-s-reliance-on-driller-data-for-water-irks-homeowners.html
Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jan/21/fracking-activism-protest-terrorist-oil-corporate-spies
Texans angrily protest fracking after 30 earthquakes hit town
http://rt.com/usa/azle-texas-austin-fracking-979/
Fears of global oil crisis aired at Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue.
http://www.jeremyleggett.net/2014/01/9876/
Have your say on future production of minerals in West Sussex
http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/your_council/news_and_events/news/2014_archive/january_2014/have_your_say_on_future_produc.aspx
ETHICS OF FRACKING ASKS HARD QUESTIONS
http://www.nofrackingway.us/2014/01/20/ethics-of-fracking-asks-hard-questions/
Oil Executive: Military-Style 'Psy Ops' Experience Applied
Petitioning Ed Milliband (and the Labour Party)
Provide an effective opposition to shale gas / fossil fuels and commit to Green Renewable Energy.
http://www.change.org/petitions/ed-milliband-and-the-labour-party-provide-an-effective-opposition-to-shale-gas-fossil-fuels-and-commit-to-green-renewable-energy?share_id=AsXreRXhjq&utm_campaign=share_button_mobile&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition
Anti-fracking protestors picket Bournemouth petrol station
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10947495.Anti_fracking_protestors_picket_Bournemouth_petrol_station/
Cracking the Fracking Debate
http://blogs.birminghampost.co.uk/news/2014/01/cracking-the-fracking-debate.html
The UK's best attended shale gas conference
http://www.terrapinn.com/conference/shale-gas-uk/index.stm
UK Proposes to Frack One-Half of Great Britain
http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/13/uk-proposes-to-frack-one-half-great-britain/
John Blaymires - COO of IGAS - UCL Energy Society
Event for UCL Energy Society · By Waldemar von Ravensburg
https://www.facebook.com/events/807985229227881/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Welcome to A Shade Greener. Providers of FREE Solar Panels
http://ashadegreener.co.uk/?ad_ref=sfb39l
Anti-fracking protests persist as Cameron promotes shale - video
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2014/jan/13/anti-fracking-protesters-cameron-shale-video
Total Garage Lock-On (Bolton)
http://itookyourpic.com/barton_moss_protection_camp/total_garage_lock_on/
Don't let them drill in the South Downs!
www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/don't-let-them-drill-south-downs-20140113
Vanessa Vine Spells Out the Government Position on Fracking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKh0I3n0KVY
IoD report fantastical and funded by Cuadrilla
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/iod-report-fantastical-and-funded-cuadrilla-20130522
UK government found 'cheerleading' for fracking industry
http://rt.com/news/uk-government-fracking-industry-829/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
Pope Francis speaks out against fracking and environmental devastation
http://blueandgreentomorrow.com/2013/11/29/pope-francis-speaks-out-against-fracking-and-environmental-devastation/
Fracking and Drinking Water Map: This Map Shows Where You Shouldn't Drink Tap Water in the USA
http://strangesounds.org/2013/07/fracking-and-drinking-water-map-this-map-shows-you-where-you-shouldnt-drink-tap-water-in-the-usa.html
Days to save Europe's climate legacy
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_eu_climate_legacy_f/?bJrzbdb&v=34364
Question Time - BBC - 6/01/2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q48yf/Question_Time_16_01_2014/
Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking opposition
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/17/emails-uk-shale-gas-fracking-opposition
Eni Is Said to Abandon Polish Shale Aspirations
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/business/international/eni-is-said-to-abandon-polish-shale-aspirations.html
Vanessa Vine Points out the Government Lies at Barton Moss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgyIdcKMmbU
Prime Minister promises financial boost for 'fracking' councils
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/prime-minister-promises-financial-boost-6501194
If you had to choose between fracking or wind turbines to produce energy in your area, which would you go for?
http://www.countryfile.com/poll/if-you-had-choose-between-fracking-or-wind-turbines-your-local-area-produce-future-energy-which
Fracking: Let the People Decide
www.dorseteye.com/north/photos/fracking-let-the-people-decide
Silver Fox Legal statement 16/01/2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLeOdNGFnOk
Combined heat and power (CHP)
www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/solutions/combined-heat-and-power-chp#.UtfCxu7FTZw.facebook
'Fracking would ruin countryside for no gain' Wales Green leader
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/10938713._lsquo_Fracking_would_ruin_countryside_for_no_gain_rsquo__Wales_Green_leader/?ref=nt
Council leader declares fracking companies 'more than welcome' in the Fens with money raised for community benefit
http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/council_leader_declares_fracking_companies_more_than_welcome_in_the_fens_with_money_raised_for_community_benefit_1_3205620
Waltham Forest Council refuses permision to allow fracking in borough
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/10939440.Fracking_incentive_offer_rejected/
New shale gas drilling areas to be revealed as communities promised £100,000 benefits for fracking
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/10507162/New-shale-gas-drilling-areas-to-be-revealed-as-communities-promised-100000-benefits-for-fracking.html
UK fracking industry's PR offensive 'becoming more canny'
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2191632/uk_fracking_industrys_pr_offensive_becoming_more_canny.html
The Truth Behind The Dash For Gas 2014 - NEW FILM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_J6lyKZA4#t=87
UK defeats European bid for fracking regulations
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/14/uk-defeats-european-bid-fracking-regulations
MATT TAYLOR SLAMS DAVID CAMERON OVER FRACKING
http://gettingreadyfor2015.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/matt-taylor-slams-david-cameron-over-fracking/
Republican Deregulation Culture to Blame For Water Poisoning West Virginia Chemical Spill
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/13/republican-deregulation-blame-water-poisoning-west-virginia-chemicalspill.html?WPACFallback=1&WPACRandom=1389726242507
e-petition - Invest in renewables - not fracking
Wind power was Spain's top source of electricity in 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/06/wind-power-spain-electricity-2013?CMP=twt_gu
Fracking political map
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/fracking-political-map
EPA: California Offshore Frackers Must Disclose Chemicals Dumped Into Ocean
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21208-epa-california-offshore-frackers-must-disclose-chemicals-dumped-into-ocean
Protectors Travelling Fund - UK protestors
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protectors-travelling-fund
Sign now for a Frack-Free UK!
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/frack-free-uk?source=fb&subsource=20140114
Natural Gas Prices, Coal Use, And Carbon Pollution Jumped In 2013
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/13/3153671/carbon-pollution-jumped-2-percent/? utm_source=Energydesk+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=3a7600df67-Energydesk_Dispatch5_9_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ad1a620334-3a7600df67-34310345
Oil Solutions At Work: Experts and Entrepreneurs Working To Reduce U.S. Oil Use
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/smart-transportation-solutions/oil-solutions-work.html
Petitioning Lord Browne of Madingley
We call on Lord Browne to resign from his position in the Cabinet Office due to his vested interests in profiting from fracking
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/we-call-on-lord-browne-to-resign-from-his-position-in-the-cabinet-office-due-to-his-vested-interests-in-profiting-from-fracking-and-the-conflict-of-interest-this-causes? share_id=QBvCbZVTkB&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition
"CLEAN COAL" IS STILL POISONING PEOPLE'S WATER AND AIR
http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/01/10/4-methylcyclohexane-methanol-clean-coal-is-still-poisoning- peoples-water-and-air/?utm_source=gpusfb&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=coal
Clear climate risks linked to fracking, scientists told UK government
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/01/13/clear-climate-risks-linked-to-fracking-scientists-told-uk- government/?utm_source=Energydesk+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=3a7600df67- Energydesk_Dispatch5_9_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ad1a620334-3a7600df67-34310345#sthash.ljXH2EQs.dpuf
Now it's Fracking Bribery
http://eastmidlandsgreenparty.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/now-its-fracking-bribery/
Tesla Motors, London - evidence that new tech works
http://www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/london
Hundreds show support for anti-fracking protesters at peaceful march to Barton Moss drill site
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/hundreds-show-support-anti-fracking-protesters-6499696
Anti-fracking protest march staged at Barton Moss
UK and Poland announce plans to push fracking across Europe
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/01/09/cameron-to-work-with-poland-on-undermining-eu-fracking-legislation/#sthash.YuKd3TaS.dpuf
French oil giant Total to invest in UK shale gas
Days Before Casselton Oil Train Explosion, Obama Signed Bill Hastening Fracking Permits on ND Public Lands
http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/01/07/days-before-casselton-oil-train-explosion-president-obama-signed-bill-hastening-fracking-permitting-nd-public-lands
Global warming is being caused by humans, not the sun, and is highly sensitive to carbon, new research shows
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/jan/09/global-warming-humans-not-sun?CMP=fb_us
Memo to many in W. Va.: Don't drink the water
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/west-virginia-contaminated-water/
Up to 2,000 frack wells a year needed to cut gas bills: Cost benefits may only be achieved by 'major disruption to landscape'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536238/Up-2-000-frack-wells-year-needed-cut-gas-bills-Cost-benefits-achieved-major-disruption-landscape.html#ixzz2pt7QLllV
Presenting the Geoscience Behind the UK's Shale Potential, 4-5 March 2014
http://www.shaleuk.com/
People living in fracking areas set to get more compensation
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/people-living-in-fracking-areas-set-to-get-more-compensation-9047653.html
Environmental report for further onshore oil and gas licensing
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/environmental-report-for-further-onshore-oil-and-gas-licensing
Photos reveal effects of Marcellus shale drilling
http://triblive.com/aande/3032181-74/fair-drilling-brown-gas-goldsmith-marcellus-neighbors-fracking-homes-shale#ixzz2pd4TqVnv
THE 9 BIGGEST MOMENTS IN FRACKING IN 2013
http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/01/08/the-9-biggest-moments-in-fracking-in-2013/?utm_source=gpusfb&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=fracking
(photo) Nina Berman: Having no clean well water, Jodie Simons and Jason Lamphere give their horses bottled water to drink.
They claim their water was contaminated by nearby gas-drilling activities causing their daughter to be sick and their animals to die. Monroeton, Bradford County, 2011.
A U-Turn on Fracking Would be the Wisest Option
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/a-u-turn-on-fracking-would-be-the-wisest-option?share_id=eITbWMprov&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition
Fracking house price threat spreads
http://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/mortgage-solutions/news/2278905/fracking-house-price-threat-spreads#.UsyRKVzx0DE.facebook
Leaking well, company draw state's notice
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/leaking-well-company-draw-states-notice/
Tory supporters: do you realise that fracking is messier and nastier than wind turbines?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jennyjones/100253446/tory-supporters-do-you-realise-that-fracking-is-messier-and-nastier-than-wind-turbines/
Sign now for a Frack-Free UK! Greenpeace
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/frack-free-uk?source=fb&subsource=share&utm_medium=fb&utm_source=gpeace&utm_campaign=fracking2
Dorset County Council approves plans for 24-hour exploratory gas well drilling
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10913821.Dorset_County_Council_approves_plans_for_24_hour_exploratory_gas_well_drilling/?action=success
Water Pollution From Drilling Confirmed In At Least 4 States, Casting Doubt On Safety Of Boom
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/water-pollution-drilling_n_4548561.html?utm_hp_ref=green
UK website about fracking by Alan Tootill
http://www.frackingdigest.co.uk/
STOP FRACKING IN TAMESIDE
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-fracking-in-tameside
FRACK FREE DORSET'S BROCHURE
http://www.frackfreedorset.org.uk/files/FFDleaflet(web).pdf
PDF-FILES RELATED TO FRACKING!
http://my-pages.net/alerteschiste/pdf.php
Outrage as Prince Charles Tells Villagers He Owns The Land Beneath their Homes
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/21/outrage-as-prince-charles-tells-villagers-he-owns-the-land-beneath-their-homes.html
Study Shows Fracking Is Bad for Babies
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-04/study-shows-fracking-is-bad-for-babies.html
'Frack Master' says UK shale gas market threatened by scaremongering
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/15/frack-master-says-uk-investment-threatened-by-green-campaigners-shale-gas
Fracking Bans Spread Across Argentina, Global Resistance Grows
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/fracking-bans-spread-across-argentina-global-resistance-grows/
Funding axed for clean-up of toxic land
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/funding-axed-for-cleanup-of-toxic-land-9028637.html
In Big Victory, PA Supreme Court Rules Local Towns Retain Zoning Power
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2013/in-big-victory-pa-supreme-court-rules-local-towns-retain-zoning-power
France's Ban On Fracking Is 'Absolute'
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/11/2773071/france-frack-ban/
Dangers of fracking explained
http://dangersoffracking.com/
TECHNOLOGYWATER - UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World
http://www.technologywater.com/post/69995394390/un-report-says-small-scale-organic-farming-only-way-to
Wind industry set for record breaking month
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2320516/wind-industry-set-for-record-breaking-month
The Fracking Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/20/the-fracking-chickens-are-coming-home-to-roost/
Social Cost of Fracking in Rural Pennsylvania Counties
http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/Social_Costs_of_Fracking.pdf
Earthquakes from onshore gas drilling threaten a disaster, warn residents of Dutch city
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/10162343/Earthquakes-from-onshore-gas-drilling-threaten-a-disaster-warn-residents-of-Dutch-city.html
Fracking produces annual toxic waste water enough to flood Washington DC
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/04/fracking-us-toxic-waste-water-washington
Fracking protest 'scars' Balcombe village
PETITION - FRACK FREE FERNHURST
http://www.frackfreefernhurst.com/submit-an-objection/
Fracking thing starting to feel completely insane
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/fracking-thing-starting-to-feel-completely-insane-2013121982170
Government fails communities on fracking
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/government_fails_communities_41573.html#.UrLek9_OfUo.facebook
Fracking firm Cuadrilla pulls out of Lancashire 'quake' site
Months After Banning Fracking, France Now Has A Carbon Tax
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/19/3091081/france-carbon-tax/#
Introduction to the Water Framework Directive, UK
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/33362.aspx
The EU Water Framework Directive - integrated river basin management for Europe
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/
Bentley locals prepare for CSG blockade
http://www.echo.net.au/2013/12/bentley-locals-prepare-for-csg-blockade/
Kevin Anderson - scientist about fracking and clean energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egBWkPNz2TQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Anderson_(scientist)
http://kevinanderson.info/
http://manchesterclimatemonthly.net/2013/12/17/professor-kevin-anderson-on-shale-gas-civil-disobedience-and-barton-moss-manchester-climate/
'The Queen owns what's under your homes'
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Queen-owns-s-homes/story-19715873-detail/story.html
Blockade Number 1 at Barton Moss
http://activisttech.org/blog/-/blogs/blockade-number-1-at-barton-moss?p_p_auth=D0dvlxNT
Professor Smythe and the Lords Select Committee, evidence dated 11th November.
http://frackingdigest.co.uk/lordssmythe.htm
EU leaves shale gas out of stricter law on environmental studies
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/eu-environment-shalegas-idUSL6N0JZ3JT20131220
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General found EPA Region 6 was justified in legally intervening to protect Parker County
http://www.nationofchange.org/inspector-general-finds-epa-justified-intervening-protect-drinking-water-fracking-1387983304
Fracking chemicals 'could cause infertility, cancer and birth defects'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10520735/Fracking-chemicals-could-cause-infertility-cancer-and-birth-defects.html
Ministers reveal UK fracking roadmap
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/17/ministers-reveal-uk-fracking-roadmap
Poll: Do you support the idea of fracking?
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/12/18/poll-do-you-support-the-idea-of-fracking/
5 bedroom detached house for sale £975,000
Brighton Grange Farm, Barton Moss Road, Barton Moss
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42547154.html
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Mining services company AJ Lucas holds 55pc stake in UK's huge gas discovery
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/mining-services-company-aj-lucas-holds-55pc-stake-in-uks-huge-gas-discovery/story-e6frg9df-1226163384093
Wastewater Case Raises the Concept of Underground Trespassing
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/us/wastewater-case-raises-the-concept-of-underground-trespassing.html?_r=1&
EARTHQUAKES: Shaking in Texas makes officials worry about injection from drilling
America's greenest energy source - READ THE COMMENTS
http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/americas-greenest-energy-source/
SCIENTIFIC FILM
Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith, Senior Policy Advisor at the National Toxics Network, explains the latest medical research relating to unconventional gasfields and human health. Presentation at Kyogle Gasfields-Free Community Celebrations, northern NSW, Australia, 23 November 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5TFlCSn0gs
Pennsylvania Fracking Study Shows Chemicals Did Not Contaminate Water
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/pennsylvania-fracking-study_n_3622512.html#slide=2812221
US Government Role in Shale Gas Fracking History: An Overview and Response to Our Critics
http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/shale_gas_fracking_history_and
FRACKING - AVANT ET APRES! - before and after, photos
http://my-pages.net/alerteschiste/fracking-before-after.php
Second leak reported at east Fort Worth gas well site
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/12/07/5399740/second-leak-reported-at-east-fort.html?rh=1
Straight talk - Pennsylvanians speak out to Governor Corbett about fracking
http://youtu.be/7VhDXNEEVCs
Charlie Rose Robert A Lutz & Elon Musk interesting snippet
http://youtu.be/7lvgj2D7ypA
Pro-fracking Tory MP rejects drilling in his own backyard
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/10482667/Pro-fracking-Tory-MP-rejects-drilling-in-his-own-backyard.html
Martin Sheen Exposé on Fracking to Air on Public TV
http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/03/martin-sheen-expose-on-fracking/
YOUTUBE http://youtu.be/qkPaqO-4TlM
The Potential Health Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater and Drill Cuttings
http://www.r-cause.net/uploads/8/0/2/5/8025484/steingraber_senate_testimony_12_12_11.pdf
Lib Dems attack fracking report
http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/winchester/10846787.Lib_Dems_attack_fracking_report/
Does Frac Sand Mining Rush In Wisconsin Threaten Public Health?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/frac-sand-mining-wisconsin-health_n_2256753.html
How one frac sand mine company sneaked into Missouri
http://kbia.org/post/how-one-frac-sand-mine-company-sneaked-missouri
Barton Moss: The latest front line in Britain's unconventional energy revolution against fracking
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barton-moss-the-latest-front-line-in-britains-unconventional-energy-revolution-against-fracking-8967753.html
Banks Reluctant to Lend in Shale Plays as Evidence Mounts on Harm to Property Values Near Fracking
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/11/25/new-evidence-fracking-s-property-value-impacts-banks-growing-reluctant-lend-near-gas-wells
Word Games are Misleading the American Public About Fracking
http://blog.skytruth.org/2013/11/fracking-word-games.html
Analysis Finds Offshore Fracking Industry Pumping Toxic Wastewater Into Coastal Waters
http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/15/fracking-industry-pumping-toxic-wastewater-in-coastal-waters/
New UK wind power record and gas use falls commensurately
http://blog.abundancegeneration.com/2013/11/new-uk-wind-power-record-and-gas-use-falls-commensurately/?utm_source=SOCIAL_MEDIA&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=blog
Barclays invests in shale gas revolution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10486422/Barclays-invests-in-shale-gas-revolution.html
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Barclays_Bank_Dont_back_fracking_in_the_UK/sign/?afugqbb
SALFORD OPPOSITION TO FRACKING GROWS AT BARTON MOSS
SOLUTIONS AND FUTURE ENERGY SOURCES - STANFORD
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/january/jacobson-world-energy-012611.html
SOLUTIONS AND FUTURE ENERGY SOURCES - GERMANY
http://www.expressionoftruth.com/2013/07/german-village-produces-321-more-energy.html
UK FARMER ABOUT FRACKING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfohLCKO3c
CHURCH OF ENGLAND ABOUT FRACKING
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10240773/fracking-swanage-threatens-Gods-glorious-creation.html
POPE FRANCIS ABOUT FRACKING
KEISER REPORT, FRACKING DOES NOT PAY
http://youtu.be/GvTzMHCeiZA
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/08/interview-george-mitchell
COUNCILS MUST MAKE DECISION
http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network/2013/oct/28/frack-shale-gas-local-communities
GREEN PEACE SYSTEM - COULD YOUR HOME BE FRACKED?
http://www.wrongmove.org/
GREEN PEACE
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/3-reasons-why-we-could-all-be-fracked-fracking-20130812
GREEN PEACE IN DORCHESTER
http://www.viewfrompublishing.co.uk/news_view/29076/15/1/dorchester-environment-campaigners-rally
WATER ON FIRE
http://gas2.org/2013/11/08/fracking-victim-steve-lipskys-flaming-water-joke/
REGULATIONS FAIL TO PROTECT WATER
http://ecowatch.com/2013/11/07/oil-and-gas-regulations-fail-to-protect-water/
JOBCUT AT ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/massive-job-cuts-at-the-environment-agency-8909182.html
http://www.goodfuckingidea.com/923
Health advisor urges early assessment of shale gas risks in planning process
http://www.hpa.org.uk/webc/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1317140158707
TYPES OF FRACKING
http://eprints.port.ac.uk/13312/1/Guide_to_Fracturing_r1.pdf
FRACKING "IS SAFE... AND IT'S COMING SOON"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/fracking/10437394/Fracking-is-safe...-and-its-coming-soon.html
THE HULK FIGHTS FRACKING IN NEW YORK
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/the-hulk-gets-angry-at-hydraulic-fracturing
WHAT IS SHALE GAS?
http://www.aldes.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ALDShaleGas813.pdf
SHIPPING OF FRACKING WASTE WATER ON RIVERS AND LAKES
http://www.alternet.org/fracking/plan-proposed-allow-fracking-wastewater-be-shipped-barge-rivers-and-lakes
SCIENTIFIC GUIDE ON FRACKING
www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/fracking_old_story_new_threat_0.pdf
A bank's mortgage offer for a house was initially withdrawn due to its valuer being "unable to assess the property's risk" from a West Sussex drill site.
DORSET EYE 12. NOVEMBER, JOIN NO FRACKING DORSET
http://www.dorseteye.com/north/articles/join-no-fracking-dorset
FRACK FREE FERNHURST ENGAGE TRANSPORT PLANNING CONSULTANCY TO ADVISE ON THE TRAFFIC
http://www.frackfreefernhurst.com/news/2013/11/12/fracking-traffic
Shale Shock: How to Invest in Hydraulic Fracturing
http://www.energyandcapital.com/report/shale-shock-how-to-invest-in-hydraulic-fracturing/720
The Truth About Fracking Part 1
The Pope says No to Fracking and that "Water is worth more than gold"
http://www.ejolt.org/2013/11/the-pope-says-no-to-fracking-and-that-water-is-worth-more-than-gold/
Enjoy Our Domestic Oil Abundance While It Lasts
Four reasons to stop fracking :
1) Pollution
Fracking inserts cancer causing and radioactive chemicals beneath the ground and increases climate change above ground. And it poisons
drinking water. Ok, there is legislation against the underground pollution, but that didn't stop the Gulf of Mexico disaster either.
2) Quality of life
Quality of life above ground is significantly reduced, not just by the poisoning and pollution mentioned, but also by the thousands of lorry
movements needed for each well, over many years. This ruins quality of life in the area and reduces house prices, making some homes
unsellable.
3) Costs
The lorry movements are already damaging roads around Balcombe. Who pays to repair those roads? Not the fracking company, the county council and it's taxpayers. These costs, and house price reductions, are not charged to the fracking company Profit and Loss statement, but are 'externalities'. So who benefits?
4) Profits
Whilst the costs are borne by the many local residents, there is a good deal of money to be made, by the few people who own the fracking operations, an alarming number of whom seem to be either friends of or related to the politicians (both at local and at national level) who granted permissions for the fracking to go ahead. This is the real scandal: that a few 'absentee cronies' make profits, while many others pay the costs, many others have their quality of life and house values devalued, and future generations have their earth, air and water disastrously polluted.
Interview with Ian R Crane, geo political analyst, researcher and ex-oilfield executive
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/globalpeaceradio/2013/08/15/ian-r-crane-interview
Ian Crane lectures and writes about the shocking dangers of Fracking for Shale gas. Ian explains why Fracking is such a disaster for humanity and the planet, which if unleashed on society will poison the water and the air which we rely on for survival.
We talk about the shocking truth that the government and the gas companies are ethically compromising to the point where greed and profit has become more important than even their own children's future. Ian helps us understand that the consequences and feedback loops from decisions made now without vision or wisdom will cause us horrific damage in the future.
The decision to Frack for gas or not lies in the hands of the people and not the politicians, because is it becoming more and more glaringly
obvious to the people that their governments are not responsible enough to have such power, and cannot be morally trusted with it. People everywhere are realizing that if it is left to the politicians, our country and planet will be ruined by short sighted greed, so we are witnessing a revolution of consciousness and conscience, as peoples ethical alarm bells are ringing loud and clear, alerting us that we cannot pursue our current, destructive trajectory.
FILM with Fiona Harvey, Natalie Bennett, Professor Jim Watson and Vanessa Vine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMiPtcrKcBo
"Energy in the Future - Where we'll get our energy from in the future is one of the greatest challenges facing the world as we move through the 21st Century. There are finite resources and a growing population. This panel, including the leader of the Green Party Natalie Bennett, environmental campaigner Vanessa Vine, The Guardian's Environment Editor Fiona Harvey, and Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, Professor Jim Watson, discuss saving energy, alternative energy and the pros and cons of controversial sources such as shale gas through fracking." — at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Transcripts from the film:
Wind ressources, solar, tidal, hydro,
important, who owns the ressources, community owned
NO nuclear or fracking, 40 billion subsidy on nuclear for 40 years, nuclear does not stack up on cost grounds, energy bills have risen in past years, due to rising price of gas, cause expensive energy future, energy conservation, leaky homes insulation, jobs with insulation, cut carbon emmissions, the green deal 7% loans to insulate houses, rely on renewables, wind ressources, solar, tidal, hydro,
no nuclear, frack, expensive and polluting, energy conservation, give jobs, cut carbon
Important to develop renewable energy now, I agree with CBI, decarbonisation by 2030: only 0 carbon power plants, We do need to not exploit all resources, even the cleanest gas cannot be used
Professor Jim Watson
There may be break throughs in new energy
The technologies for renewable energy already exist
There are many ways of solving energy problems, not only a few
Energy calculator online, Friends of the Earth
Wear more jumpers in the winter
We have choices
Natural gas is important to UK, heating and power
Fracking is overhyped, we don't know enough
George Osborne made assumptions
Environmental campaigner Vanessa Vine
Experiences in Lancashire
Fracked gas is not a solution or real energy security
it does not give jobs, silicosis in worker's lung
Google list of harms in Pensylvania, Queensland Australia
Unnegligent government sanctions this
Oil industry is not working in the interest of the people
Jessica Ernst in Alberta, oil and gas industry scientist sues fracking company, Incarna and Canadian Government, they destroyed her land
Concerned about how politicians handle this subject I no longer trust our government
Cuadrilla have proved themselves inept, lying
What do you do, when they are going to frack your willage?
Subterraian geology cannot be legislated for, water, air pollutions, it is beyond belief that fracking is being sanctions, gas wells leak, lots of evidence of harm, learned about it as a regular person, 38 degees, everybody has to take initiative, Milestone for carbon emmissions has been passed this year. This could cause the levels to doubble.
EARTH QUAKES
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/11/us-science-fracking-earthquakes-idUSBRE96A0TZ20130711
http://my-pages.net/alerteschiste/documentations.php?language=en
Ian Crane - not on BBC
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/ian-crane-uks-fracking-nightmare
easy to raise taxes
with hydro carbon driven economy
seismic events in blackpool area
depleted uranium for perforation, kickstart the fracking process
property prices collapsed in blackpool and balcombe, buyers pull out, affects existing mortgages,
plus butterfly effect; the upper middle classes with access to cash will move away, this puts pressure on the property market surrounding areas pressing prices up,
CO-OP tour
http://ukcec.org/
CO-OP AGAINST FRACKING
http://www.co-operative.coop/join-the-revolution/our-blog/clean-energy-revolution/join-us-for-community-energy-fortnight/
WATER - THE ENGINEER.CO.UK
http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/does-hydrofracking-contaminate-water/1016610.article
WATER - SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-fracking-wastewater-wells-poisoning-ground-beneath-our-feeth
WATER - SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM 2
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=groundwater-contamination-may-end-the-gas-fracking-boom
http://livinggreenmag.com/2012/12/17/energy-ecology/livestock-falling-ill-in-fracking-regions-raising-concerns-about-
food/#IpgXvlQW8clK0hkm.99
http://ntpressoffice.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/national-trust-and-fracking/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929292.000-fracking-could-accelerate-global-warming.html#.Ugd_MJK1Gm0
TIMELAPSE SHOWING THE SETTING UP OF A RIG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WV9RI2esE
http://www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk/community/your-say/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-the-labour-party-thinks-of-fracking-1-5447525
THE GUARDIAN ABOUT CAMERON ON FRACKING
http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/10-signs-the-fracking-industry-faces-big-trouble/article23235.html
THE PROBLEMS WITH PERPETUAL ENERGY SOURCES
http://deepgreenresistancenewyork.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/sustainability-is-destroying-the-earth/
Sally Singer Check out Anthony talk he will explain the 4 technical points that are different in Fracking since 1998 and also check out the
Halliburton loophole...maybe someone outh to send Cameron a copy and he will understand why there have been no reports of damage and toxicity - gas and oil industry were made exempt from making such reports
FORMER OIL VP
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17605-former-mobil-vp-warns-of-fracking-and-climate-change
METHANE AIR POLLUTION
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50811/abstract
BANKER ABOUT FRACKING
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/08/12/banker-destroys-argument-for-shale-gas-in-a-short-letter/
http://youtu.be/XGEc8KBKO8I
ARGUMENTS AGAINST FRACKING
http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/entry/why-im-against-fracking
LIST OF HARMED
http://pennsylvaniaallianceforcleanwaterandair.wordpress.com/the-list/
NEW ENERGY IN ABUNDANCE
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/07/03/german-town-produces-321-more-energy-than-it-needs/
OVER EXPLOITED UNCONVENTIONAL GAS FIELD IN CHINA
If you want to see what an over-exploited Unconventional Gas Field looks like in China ... paste the following co-ordinates into Google Earth:
46°19'1.81"N 124°50'53.32"E
CRAIG BENNETT
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/2287729/the-top-five-reasons-why-drilling-for-shale-gas-is-fracking-stupid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPM4x_KNT2s
http://www.alternet.org/environment/fracking-swanage-companies-sued-causing-earthquakes
SURPRESSION OF DANGERS
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/govt-energy-industry-accused-of-suppressing-fracking-dangers/
THE GOVERNMENT KNEW
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10610762.Secret_emails_reveal_the_risk_to_water_in_Sussex_from_fracking_was_known_by_officials/
WOMEN TALK IN BALCOMBE
http://youtu.be/qHhz3sWfmeU
FIRST THE NATIONAL TRUST AND NOW THE RSPB
IAN CRANE ON RADIO
http://youtu.be/mHNKwc9T7WA
'Fracking threatens fresh water, risks ending of life on earth as we know it'
http://rt.com/op-edge/fracking-swanage-shale-gas-life-417/
WIND FARMS IDLE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2388417/Wind-farms-paid-30-million-year-stand-idle-grid-cope-energy-
produce.html#ixzz2iwx9yNfi
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/10/bp-widespread-human-health-crisis-2013102717831227732.html
UK FRACKERS LIE
http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-uk-frackers-replicate-us-fracking-industrys-lies-and-misinformation
TEXAS RUNS OUT OF WATER
http://www.popularresistance.org/frackers-guzzle-water-as-texas-goes-thirsty/
RISK TO LIVESTOCK
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fracking-swanage-sparks-food-safety-concern-as-expert-warns-of-serious-risk-to-livestock-
UK GOVERNMENT SAY LOW RISK
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/shale-gas-extraction-emissions-are-a-low-risk-to-public-health
Losing ground: inside the massive sinkhole that won't stop growing
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5046124/detours-new-orleans-sink-holes-bayou-corne
BBC Fracking "not a health risk"
Judge defeats challenge to 'medical gag order' on health risks from fracking
http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/judge-defeats-challenge-to-medical-gag-order-on-health-risks-from-fracking/
Fracking Documentary
http://youtu.be/w_Cu6Y4LWYM
UK Royal Society
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/shale-gas-extraction/report/
Report from Science Daily, Michigan
MEDIA INITIATIVE FROM FRACKERS
http://www.media-stakeholder-relations-hydraulic-fracturing.com/8/information/4/other-events-you-may-be-interested-in/
DEBATE IN THE GUARDIAN
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/where-do-these-fracking-protesters-think-energy-is-going-to-come-from-8746683.html
Comments to the article:
Dart Energy (which Tory donor Ian Taylor's Vitol holds a 16% share of) have had their production license suspended by SEPA on their Solway field because of methane leaks around the well heads. Currently SEPA are also checking for possible contamination of the local water table by 'fracking' liquids. Fracking works in the North Sea because the pressure of water at the well heads is often greater than the pressure of the gas being produced and definitely of the pressure of any small gas leaks at the well head. Under sea it is in effect self sealing. The process also does not involve local aquifers or water tables. On fracking on land in the US has routinely been shown to cause major environmental problems through both leakage of fracking solutions in the water table and contamination of the water table with methane. The extent of the problem is highlighted in today's news that a US family have been paid $750,000 to stop their kids telling every one about the 'smell'. The problem with the argument that Coal Bed Methane extraction does not cause 'earthquakes' ignores the complex geology associated with UK coal fields based, as they are, on a number of faults in the Earth's crust. This complex faulting was a major reason why UK pits became expensive and dangerous to run. If you lubricate two surfaces already under tension the probability is they will slip to release said tension, it is after all why earthquakes happen as the tension exceeds the friction as one tectonic plate drives over or under the other. All in all if this Government had the slightest clue about what it is doing rather than simply pandering to its capitalist lusts it would be investing in renewables, especially solar panels in the SE which has the UK's highest number of sunshine hours per year. The German's are currently turning their car parks in giant solar stations. The problem with tidal stream or barrage, hydro and onshore/ offshore wind is to develop its true UK potential would mean investing in Wales and Scotland. There are no significant Tory votes in either Wales or Scotland but in Sussex the Tories and Libdems run the council and so Caudrilla part of the Gideot's father-in law's share portfollio would get an easy peasy run for planning permission for fracking .... you get what you vote for.
Ah, always good to see the traditional 'patronise the opposition into silence' approach to stifling debate deployed, as Lawson has done here.
Even the title of the piece is condescending. I can't speak for everyone, of course, but I should think the protestors would like to see the money invested in renewable, sustainable energy, rather than the tax payer paying for this now (whilst the fracking companies simultaneously receive large tax breaks, to ensure the least benefit to our economy and the most to shareholders as is the Tory way) then having to pay again to get the renewable energy infrastructure in place, as is inevitable in the not too distant future. But of course if we're not dependent on fossil fuels, and energy prices drop down to an acceptable level, a lot people don't stand to remain extremely rich.
There must be decades worth of toxic gas escaping your fathers backside.
Your first argument seems to be that there is no actual fracking in Balcombe and therefore the protest is pointless. Except that it's created a national debate, is dividing interests everywhere, and highlighting to other sites what can be achieved. I think the protest is working! Next there is a very large section essentially telling us that two wrongs makes a right. Great stuff there. Oh but you "know a bit about this", so ok then...
This superior knowledge is then highlighted by your statement that oil and gas "incidentally produce much less Co2 than coal per unit of energy produced". Well lah dee dah. Way to point out the most obvious school level knowledge. Oh and that's a capital 'O' for Oxygen. Every one of those protesters knows this and they also know that gas produces too much CO2. Less is not enough! That's been written into law through the Climate Change Act. Your next argument seems to be that you're not allowed to protest against fracking if you're commuting there in a non-carbon neutral mode of transport. Wow! Do you really need an answer to your title? That's school level knowledge once again.
I am sure this is the same Dominic Lawson who wrote so eloquently about the destruction of the countryside from those generators of renewable energy, windmills. As someone who lives opposite a wind farm in Lancashire, which is probably on top of a shale gas source, I know which I prefer. As an aside can Mr Lawson please remind me who funds his father's anti man made global warning pressure group? (a strange genetic transfer of opinion!) Are these people also funding the Frackers, if so I think the Independent should point out the conflict of interest angle at the top of these articles.
The frackers don't need funding. It will more than pay for itself if they are ever allowed to get on with it. Unlike your cherished windmills, that only exist because of vast subsidies paid by adding 10% hidden taxes on to everybody's electricity and gas bill.
Then why oh why are we giving them tax breaks, is it because they are donating money to the Tories? Clearly you have not heard about the man made climate change caused by CO2 (supported by the vast majority of climate scientists) otherwise you wouldn't make the rather pointless comments about windmills and other renewable energy sources. Your good friend Dominic like his Father Nigel doesn't believe it either but they are not scientists and have money to gain from their "beliefs"
I think you miss the point that many of the protestors want alternative energy sources, not just fracking up north or not in Sussex. Genuine protest about HOW we get energy is not NIMBYism.
Gerald, are you seriously suggesting we keep 62 million people on a small island in the dead of winter running on power transported by wires from solar panels in Spain and the Sahara? Because the sun ain't nowhere near strong enough here to power us all, even in summer. Have you any idea of the power loss over such a long distance? Obviously not. Your idea is utterly impractical.
I can't speak for all of the protesters, any more than you speak for me, but some of us have thought deeply about the problem of energy
supply, and would much rather see a mixture of distributed renewable energy sources, combined with some of the new energy storage
technologies. This combined with measures to improve efficiency and reduce waste would allow us to keep the lights on. In addition, these measures would increase resilience to energy price shocks, create many local jobs which cannot be off-shored, and if done sensibly using local investment, would generate taxes to be paid into the UK treasury. Destroying yet more of our countryside, for (almost tax exempt) foreign businesses with the potential to wreck the water table for centuries to come (yes, look at the 1-7% failure rates per year for well sealing - after 100 years they are almost all leaking) for just a few more polluting years of putting off the inevitable move to renewables will not be looked upon favourably by our children who will have to inherit the mess of a country we seem determined to leave them.
Let's be clear here: "a total area of just two square kilometres" - that means, from the article above, one hundred separate fracking sites. All of these will need the gas to be collected, so either tankers and hence roads to each one, or pipework between them. All of these will need the fracking fluid to be delivered to them and residual liquids collected. Again, either tankers and hence roads, or pipework with the potential for spills and leaks. Cuadrilla's CEO is very careful to say "a total area of just two square kilometres" and not explain over how much of the countryside these one hundred fracking sites will sprawl.
Renewable energy destroys jobs, it doesn't create them. The wind farm 'industry' costs £100,000 in subsidies every year for each job in it. Those subsidies have to be paid for by taxing the truly profitable parts of the economy. Those taxes destroy 2-3 jobs elsewhere. The only people who think that the renewables 'industry' creates jobs are those who must think the money for subsidies appears from nowhere. Unfortunately that appears to be a large proportion of the population.
By that argument we should shut down nuclear even faster as the subsidy for that runs into millions of pounds per job. And we still haven't worked out what to do with all the nuclear waste piling up.
...and as for money appearing from nowhere... perhaps you should go and look up how money in our economy is actually created. We have given a monopoly to the banks to create money from thin air and then charge interest on it. No wonder they always seem to be winning. Perhaps we could re-think our monetary system to create a type of money that does good to our country rather than destroying it?
Must not associate the Conservatives talking about Fracking rather than importing gas; and the Conservatives who closed the British coal industry on the grounds we should be importing gas.
The Tories closed down the UK mining industry replacing it with the 'dash for gas', a market driven solution. In doing so we replaced an
indigenous supply (3-400 years worth) with reliance on foreign sources. The rush to fracking smacks of similar short-termism. The energy
companies were quick to stress that UK energy prices would not come down. I fail to see why the lower Co2 content of oil and gas is stressed by Dominic, he doesn't accept global warming as an issue anyway. The maintenance of the UK's energy supply is a long term economic and strategic concern. Long term strategic thinking is something our political class is incapable of doing. The 'market' doesn't even understand the concept.
Also by closing down the coal industry they closed down the world's leading research institutes on carbon capture. Burning coal cleanly would have been one of the most effective of reducing CO2 emissions and the technology would have been worth billions in exports.
We must keep our coal fired power plants running, not close a third of them by 2016, as this silly coalition is planning to do. Wind power is next to useless - we can't run the UK on wind turbines. The government's energy policy is insane, and must be changed ASAP. Firing the idiot Davey would be a good start.
Burning coal is insane. It is verifiably the cause of "severe" health problems, and there is no workable technology for cleaning it up. Let's not forget why we've agreed to phase it out as quickly as possible.
China and India together are building hundreds of new coal plants every year. A handful in the UK will make virtually no difference to the global emissions total, so to close them down is stupid, especially as we haven't got anything to replace them with yet.
Dominic Lawson makes a plausible case for gas extraction from Balcombe unfortunately it's based on a false premise. This exploratory well may well determine that fracking is the best way to extract the gas. If they make that determination, then this entire pleasant meander through Britain's safe and pleasant landscape, is redundant and an altogether harsher reality of the very real possibility of spikes from the fractures reaching further than the 800 feet safety distance between the drilling the aquifer, arises. There is a statistical certainty that for every 20 wells sunk one will lose cement integrity of its casing and leak. There are very real and very profound risks for Balcombe and the nearby reservoir which provides water to a lot more people in the South of England, than just Balcombe. Soothing tomes from politicians, history teaches us should be met with a great deal of scepticism. 80% of the residents voted against this development, for reasons that are perfectly sound given the experiences of people in places like Pennsylvania USA.
What a lot of scare stories with no basis in fact. The report by the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering found that fracking is extremely safe provided rigorous inspection and regulation are in place. Long fractures, polluted aquifers etc. are extremely unlikely. But you prefer to believe a load of scare stories in Greenpeace and FoE press releases. Who's anti-science now?
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