“The Frack Stopped Here”: Lancashire Council rejects fracking
Let's hope @Cuadrillauk frack right off now. #dontmesswithnannas #dontfracklancs #fracking — Henry Chown (@HenryChown) June 29, 2015 Lancashire Council have just rejected an application from Cuadrilla to frack for gas…
Universities shake hands with EWRE and Halliburton
Image: Kxlly Kxsh, Flickr. Two studies at UCL and the University of Edinburgh that have received money from a new €12 million EU funding pot for research into the impacts…
Breaking: Fracking and unconventional oil and gas halted in Scotland
Protesters at the SNP conference in Perth, October 2013. Image by the author. "From today there will be a moratorium on all unconventional oil and gas extraction", Scottish Energy Minister Fergus…
Scotland: Total ban on fracking and unconventional gas in sight
Image by the Author. Protester at INEOS, Grangemouth in December 2014. After a flurry of announcements and counter-announcements this week the campaign to ban toxic and risky forms of gas drilling…
Dust. Settled. Go Scotland: a 7 item to-do list
For two years up to September the country was in fever pitch with friends, colleagues, families and strangers debating and cajoling each other on every issue we have. It was…
Extreme Energy Inquiry begins in Scotland
Green Councillor Mark Ruskell with local community representatives and Friends of the Earth members outside the Inchyra Hotel this morning. Image: Friends of the Earth Scotland. The UK's first public…
New Gas in the UK: Battlegrounds set at Balcombe and West Burton
The community campaign against Quadrilla at Balcomb, Sussex, is at a critical point. Images: Frack Off. As the drilling equipment rolls into rural Britain the public debate has begun, accompanied…
After 160 years Central Scotland has had enough
The central belt’s fossil-fuel industrialists: James ‘Paraffin’ Young; John (Lord) Browne, BP; Mark Lappin, Dart Energy. When new technology offers us great promise – and the new gas boom certainly…
Ministerial Optimism sees Fracking Stumble Ahead onto Uncharted Paths
In a letter regarding the controversial drilling process Sarah Boyack MSP says regarding the Scottish Government’s position “I am sure that you share my hope that the Minister’s optimism is…