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GOV ANNOUNCES FRACKING IS ‘HALTED’

GOV ANNOUNCES FRACKING IS ‘HALTED’

Let’s be clear about this. Halting is not an outright ban, it means that it can be revisited and very simply reversed. Fracking in heavily populated areas that contain vast numbers of abandoned coal mines and their myriad of uncharted faults was always a numbskull idea. The lure of fast

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Undercurrents Alternative News – Celebrating 25 years of video activism

Undercurrents Alternative News – Celebrating 25 years of video activism

Undercurrents Productions are celebrating 25 years of video activism

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Chair’s Report – AGM of FFC

Chair’s Report for the last year as delivered at the AGM of FFC onTuesday 12th March, 2019   2018 has been the year when fracking actually commenced in the UK. With Brexit the main agenda politically our pro-fracking Government has decided to use the smokescreen to push forward its fracking

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Challenge the Government’s plans to steamroller Fracking through…

Challenge the Government’s plans to steamroller Fracking through…

At the Westminster Hall debate, Claire Perry, made it clear that she and her Government are totally committed… On Wed. 12th Sept. 2018, MPs attended a debate at Westminster Hall, where Government Minister, Claire Perry, faced tough questioning over the Governments plans to fast track fracking. One Conservative MP, Lee

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This Week We Loved

This Week We Loved

The definitive air pollution map Global air pollution is mapped here, in EMOJIS, and it’s probably the best map I’ve ever seen (notwithstanding the great Unearthed map on NO2 published last week of course).

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What We’re Reading

What We’re Reading

Climate issues didn’t win in the midterms Climate issues were on the ballot in a number of states in the US midterms this week, but they weren’t very successful – in Washington, Arizona and Colorado – although Florida did ban offshore oil drilling. There has also been lots of criticism

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Unearthed This Week: Do the UK’s fracking miniquakes matter?

Unearthed This Week: Do the UK’s fracking miniquakes matter?

Do the UK’s fracking miniquakes matter? Since Cuadrilla started fracking in Lancashire last month, there have been 34 (and counting!) tremors in the area. None yet have been felt on the surface, though government seismic standards have forced drilling to stop a couple of times. What’s sometimes unclear, however is

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Size Does Matter Francis!

Size Does Matter Francis!

Refracktion posted: So Mr Egan is having a tough time right now as he gets wheeled in to studio after studio to explain himself about the seismicity which everyone assumes is caused by his company’s fracking operations…

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Is Fracking Coming?

Is Fracking Coming?

Frack Free Cotswolds are putting on the event: ‘Is Fracking Coming?’ Tuesday 20th November, 2018. There will be a short talk, followed by the film – ‘Power Trip: Fracking in the UK’. This will be followed by discussion. There will be refreshments available. This is a free event and will

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National Emergency Meeting

Since this UK Government has demonstrated no regard to peoples’s rights to have a say in what happens to their local environment, by circumventing and changing planning laws, the threat of fracking to local communities is becoming ever closer and the chance of stopping it by popular local consent diminished. As

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