A medical editorial published this month (June 2018) in the British Medical Journal is another rankle for the deficient fracking industry and steamroller-happy UK government who are in perpetual denial of fracking and its health-related impacts. Written by reputed professors, David McCoy, professor of global public...
Almost four years on, the parents of seven-year-old Zane Gbangbola are still battling for the truth behind their son’s tragic death. How, in 2014, their small, beautiful boy went to sleep at night and never woke up again, still remains a painful memory that Zane’s...
Anyone who knows anything about the dangers of fracking will be celebrating that not a single licence in the whole of East Kent was included in the recently announced 14th Licensing round....
Our ‘War On Fracking’ direct action workshop at Upton Community Protection Camp took place on Saturday 5th December 2015 and participants included Dame Vivienne Westwood The Workshop gave beginners a chance to learn direct action skills at Upton Community Protection Camp, near Chester. During the 45-minute workshop, participants...
After a two-year analysis, investigative journalists Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman have uncovered 9 ways that officials at the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have kept drinking water contamination across Pennsylvania “off the books” since fracking began in 2004. Troutman and Pribanic are the co-founders of...
The government plans to fast-track fracking and take powers away from local communities but on Friday 11th September 2015 at David Cameron’s constituency home in Oxfordshire, The Nanas told the Prime Minister, “the oven gloves are coming off!” Vivienne Westwood and The Nanas from Lancashire and...
Greenpeace UK are among 172 organisations and residents’ community groups that signed Talk Fracking’s open letter calling the Task Force on Shale Gas a PR stunt to push through Fracking undemocratically. [1] Of the 172 signatories, there are 19 national campaign organisations and 153 residents’...
172 organisations and residents’ community groups have signed Talk Fracking’s open letter calling the Task Force on Shale Gas a PR stunt to push through Fracking undemocratically. In an open letter, here is what they said: Come Clean Chris: The Task Force on Shale Gas Cannot...
Last Friday, due to mounting political pressure, the government were forced to reverse a decision to censor 63 different passages of a controversial 12-page report on fracking’s potential impact on the rural economy. [1] In July 2014, following a Freedom of Information request from Greenpeace asking the...
Asad Rehman is Head of International Climate at Friends of the Earth (EWNI) and a Board member of Friends of the Earth International. Asad is from Burnley, Lancashire. This morning countless people will have woken up exhausted and elated from yesterdays amazing victory against Cuadrilla and fracking. The...