Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel treadmill, according to 'Snake Oil' by Richard Heinberg. High costs, diminishing returns and growing pollution will ultimately nail its future. Paul Mobbs urges readers - give a copy to your MP before it's too late!
Snake Oil: how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future Paul Mobbs | 20th March 2014 Reviews Fossil Fuels UK USA Fracking snake-oil.png Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel …
Low oil prices are putting a stop to some of the world's most environmentally damaging 'extreme energy' projects, writes Paul Mobbs, and may close down the entire fracking and tar sands industries. So why are so many 'Greens' issuing dire warnings, instead of celebrating the good news?
Environmentalists' oil price panic reflects their own existential crisis Paul Mobbs | 8th January 2015 Comment Energy Oil Fracking Tar Sands Consumerism Media Economics Climate Change …
As Lancashire planners come out in support of the UK's first fracking well, Jojo Mehta has something to celebrate: the resounding success of the 'What does FRACKING mean?' leaflets she crowd funded for in April. So far 80,000 have gone out to campaigners and volunteers all over the UK, and requests for more are piling up.
… business as usual. The sheer scale of industrialisation and harm to environment and … social licence for fracking - indeed for any industrial activity - ultimately lies with the …
Gas extraction plans underway in Lancashire would pose a serious risk of contaminating ground and surface waters, says Tyndall Centre report
UK urged to ban controversial 'fracking' gas-extraction Tom Levitt | 17th January 2011 News Gas Fracking Hydraulic Fracturing Energy Climate Change Water what-the-frack.jpg Gas extraction plans …
Over £1 billion could be paid out by frackers to appease local communities in the UK. Yet Rebecca Cooke finds that wind and solar offers local people a better return ...
Communites decide - fracking or renewables? Rebecca Cooke | 24th December 2013 Comment Fossil Fuels Renewables Fracking UK solar-farm-lostwithiel.png Over £1 billion could be paid out by frackers to …
So much methane is bubbling into a river surrounded by hundreds of fracking wells that it's a fire hazard! Local campaigners blame the coal seam gas industry for the gas releases which are spreading along Queensland's river Condamine and gaining in intensity.
Australian river on fire with fracked coal seam gas The Ecologist | 22nd April 2016 News Fracking Australia Fossil Fuels Gas Climate Change Energy jeremy buckingham river fire and boat-cut.jpg So …
In 2011 Bob and Lisa Parr filed a lawsuit in the Texas courts against Aruba Petroleum after they suffered health damage which they attributed to pollution from fracking wells. They have now been awarded $3m damages.
Texas court awards family $3 million for fracking health damage The Ecologist | 24th April 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Law USA emmaparr-nosebleed.jpg In 2011 Bob and Lisa Parr filed a lawsuit in …
Protests against plans to make an enormous storage site for fracked gas at Seneca Lake in New York state seven times bigger are gathering pace, writes Ashoka Jegroo, with 13 arrests at a gate blockade last week. But is the company, Crestwood, getting the message?
Over 370 arrests for blocking NY fracked gas store Ashoka Jegroo Waging NonViolence | 31st August 2015 News Fossil Fuels Gas Fracking USA Protest laudato-si-seneca-lake-2-cut.jpg Protests against …
A future Labour government will ban all fracking in the UK and drive forward a clean, affordable energy revolution, Barry Gardiner promised in his conference speech today. And it will openly negotiate 'Just Trade' agreements that respect the environment, health and labour, boosting small business not just multinational corporations.
No fracking in the UK under Labour! Just trade not 'free' trade! Barry Gardiner | 26th September 2016 Comment Trade Politics UK Fracking Fossil Fuels Renewables imagine-cut.jpg A future Labour …
The theme at COP21 today has been the urgent need to cut fossil fuel subsidies that favour dirty energy over renewables, writes Tony Juniper. Sadly the UK is setting all the wrong examples - ramping up its spending on fossil fuels, while slashing its much smaller renewable energy budgets.
COP21: Time to end fossil fuel subsidies! Tony Juniper | 30th November 2015 Comment COP21 Unfccc Energy Fossil Fuels Gas Coal Fracking Renewables Finance thistle-alpha-cut.jpg The theme at COP21 …
The campaign against fracking began with concerns about the local environment, and the impact on communities. It then took in the global issues of climate change and energy. Now local people are growing ever more concerned about democracy and state power, argues NATALIE BENNETT
'Suffragettes' confront Theresa May over fracking of local democracy Natalie Bennett | 12th September 2018 Comment Suffragists Fracking Local Democracy fb_img_1536600598231.jpg The campaign against …
Polish PM Donald Tusk is using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to revive the EU's fossil fuel industries. His proposals spell disaster for EU emissions targets and the wider environment, writes Mark Siddi. Europe's energy future must be efficient and renewable!
Poland's 'EU energy union' plan: an attempt to revive Europe's filthiest fuels Mark Siddi | 9th July 2014 Comment Poland EU Coal Fracking Fossil Fuels Climate Change Politics Ukraine …
The UK’s energy minister has suggested the government could weaken seismic activity standards at fracking sites.
Government 'to weaken tremor standards' Zachary Boren | 16th October 2018 Comment Unearthed Fracking gettyimages-935596786-1.jpg The UK’s energy minister has suggested the government could weaken …
Continued production, trade and use of fracked hydrocarbons ‘torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights’.
Support for worldwide fracking ban Marianne Brooker | 5th March 2020 News Change Makers Fracking Energy Activist Un EU fracking-699657_960_720.jpg Continued production, trade and use of fracked …
In a week which has seen the UK Government shift the fracking argument away from price benefits (always an erroneous case) the pro fracking lobby is now scrambling around to find and play up to the public the wider economic benefits shale gas development could bring to Britain. Alex Stevenson reports....
DECC won't back Cameron's fracking price promise Alex Stevenson | 6th September 2013 News Energy Politics Fracking Climate Change gasprices.jpg How will fracking affect gas prices in the UK? In a …
Following in the wake of shale gas and coal-bed methane (CBM) extraction is the spectre of underground coal gasification (UCG). But if we adopt these wholesale we could close off any hope of stepping back from the climate change brink, says campaign group Frack Off
… thousands of wells, pipelines and other industrial infrastructure across the country, … fundamental question has always been whether industrial society will be poisoned by it’s …
As Lancashire councillors prepare to decide the planning application to frack in the county, writes Kyla Mandel, the UK's transparency watchdog has ordered the government to publish in full a report on the impacts of fracking, previously published only in a heavily redacted version.
… abundant evidence that the large scale industrial operations associated with …
Ten years after promises of 'no mining' in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a $5 billion diamond mine opens a few miles from a Bushman village. Elsewhere in the Reserve, fracking is under way. And President Ian Khama, a director of Conservation International, denounces the Bushmen as 'poachers' and evicts them from their land.
Botswana government lies exposed as $5bn diamond mine opens on Bushman land Oliver Tickell | 4th September 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Botswana Hunting Mining Fracking kalahari-diamond-mine-cut.jpg …
Ministers are determined to get fracking under way in the UK as fast as possible, so it's a 'fait accompli' in time for the election, writes Alex Stevenson. With a firm pro-fracking concensus in Parliament, only one thing can frustrate their plans - strong local campaigns to turn around MPs desperate for re-election in 2015. It even has a name: democracy.
… stays in the ground. Nor will they stop the industrialisation and pollution of countryside …
The UK's insistence on opening up the UK to fracking is symptomatic of a deeper malaise, writes Paul Mobbs. Of course we need a change of government, but more than that, we need a deeper, enduring change of the nation's governance if we are ever to effect the transition to sustainable policies on energy and environment. It's time for the UK to become truly democratic.
Fracking plans are driving an even more damaging ideological agenda Paul Mobbs | 21st December 2015 News UK Politics Energy Fracking Regulation Farming Natural World not-for-shale-cut.jpg The UK's …
High ranking academics have issued a stark warning to policy makers on the future of Britain's shale gas - your best bet is that we have none that can be recovered consistent with policy objectives.
Policy makers warned on UK shale gas - assume there won't be any The Ecologist | 25th March 2015 News Fracking UK Energy Climate Change Politics fracking-waste-cut.jpg High ranking academics have …