The anti-fracking movement scored a great victory when Lancashire councillors refused planning permission for two fracking wells, writes Damien Short. But dig deeper and the triumph was all the greater, as it overcame not just Cuadrilla, but a morass of pro-fracking bias and legal and scientific misrepresentation from those meant to be providing impartial advice.
… Lancashire's fracking victory was even greater than we knew Damien Short | 21st July 2015 News Fracking Energy Politics Human Rights Law Science camp-frack-cut.jpg The anti-fracking movement scored a great victory when …
Extreme energy in the UK is arousing extreme reactions, write Jess Elliot & Damien Short. On the one side stand citizens committed to preserving the quality of the local and global environment. And against them, a government determined to let fracking rip, and police forces prepared to ignore legal norms to suppress the growing popular resistance.
… Fracking is driving UK civil and political … Elliot Damien Short | 30th October 2014 News Fracking Law Human Rights Energy Politics UK … against them, a government determined to let fracking rip, and police forces prepared to …
Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.
… Fracking zealots Gareth Dale | 23rd September … 2022 | Comment Energy Editor’s Picks Fracking 52341723689_9dc916bf3e_o.jpg Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting … banned following a 2.9-Richter tremor at a fracking test well near Blackpool in …
On the final day of the trial of Caroline Lucas and other anti-fracking protestors, we ask - what about human rights? Entirely neglected by the government in its desperate drive to frack, they ought to trump all other policy considerations.
… Fracking - why are human rights being ignored? … Hulme Steffen Böhm | 25th March 2014 Comment Fracking Law Fossil Fuels Water Pollution UK … of the trial of Caroline Lucas and other anti-fracking protestors, we ask - what about human …
The leaders gathered at COP26, with the British government to the fore, remain in the thrall of technology fetishism.
… secretary to push for the expansion of fracking , among other environmental … Sajid Javid, is a militant supporter of the fracking industry — and “ a big fan” of the …
The buzz around the hydrogen economy is shifting up a gear. But is hydrogen the spearhead technology in a green transition, or an elaborate bait-and-switch orchestrated by Big Oil and Gas?
… The US government is exhorting oil and fracking firms to ‘ drill baby drill .’ …
The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?
… gouged up for tar sands, shale gas fracking with its multitudinous methane leaks …