Category: Resources
To the Ends of the Earth: A Guide to Unconventional Fossil Fuels
Corporate Watch's new cutting edge report provides the most comprehensive and accessible guide yet to unconventional fossil fuels The endless pursuit of economic growth, coupled with the decline in conventional energy sources, is driving ever more extreme forms of energy extraction around the world, with ecologically and socially disastrous consequences.…
‘Fracking’ our food and farming system: “Extreme agriculture” and the politics of denial
Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations 18th April 2014 Published in a shortened version in The Land, Summer 2014It might seem a bit of a jump – talking about "fracking" and food production in the same article. However, when we look at what's planned for the next phase of intensive agricultural…
Study Links Fracking Chemicals and Hormone Disruption
Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/402033-study-links-fracking-chemicals-and-hormone-disruption/?photo=2 High levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals have been found in water samples near fracking sites in Colorado, according to research accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s journal Endocrinology. The chemicals “could raise the risk of reproductive, metabolic, neurological and other diseases, especially in children who are exposed to…
Fracking in Ponder, Texas: the real cost – video
In north Texas, the pumping heart of the oil and gas industry, an energy company are drilling five wells behind Veronica Kronvall's home. The closest two are within 300ft of her tiny patch of garden, and their green pipes and tanks loom over the fence. As the drilling began, Kronvall,…
Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates
Bridge Out: Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates By Joe Romm on November 25, 2013 at 4:55 pm "Bridge Out: Bombshell Study Finds Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Production Far Higher Than EPA Estimates" A major new study blows up the whole…
New Report Calls for Nationwide Ban on Fracking in US
Source: https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/04-5 By Jon Queally, staff writer, Common Dreams. Hydraulic fracturing gas drilling turning America's water into cancer-causing, radioactive waste. The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously 'unimaginable' situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the…
New Fracking Film: Fracking Hell? Britain’s gas rush
Much of the UK is being carved up for exploitation by 'extreme energy' companies wanting to undertake shale gas, coal bed methane and underground coal gasification extractions. But, as a new film shows, affected communities are putting up a fight Britain's green, picturesque land is facing uncertainty after the arrival…
Videos from meeting in Keynsham – Coalbed Methane VS Renewable Energy
Coalbed Methane VS Renewable Energy — The people of Keynsham – You decide! Part 1 – Sam Willits reads the minutes of the meeting that took place between Transition Keynsham & UK Methane‘s geologist Mr Oliver Taylor and director Mr Gerwyn Williams. We had requested to use UK Methane’s presentation…
Notes from Meeting with UK Methane
On the 18th September 2012 members of Transition Keynsham met with Representatives of UK Methane. Below are notes of what was said at the meeting (without any comment on validity or acceptance of the below). UK Methane have been granted 4 Petroleum Exploration and Development License (PEDL) by the Department…
The position of the UK Water Industry on Shale Gas Extraction
Pasted below is the document that sets out the agreed position of the UK Water Industry in respect of shale gas extraction. POLICY POSITION – Risks to water supplies posed by gas shale extraction Introduction There has been much publicity recently over the potential reserves of shale gas…