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What the Frack!

  • 05-10-2018 7:37pm
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    Channel 4 News did a feature of this, this evening:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/05/cuadrilla-confirms-plan-resume-controversial-fracking-drive-lancashire


    The UK shale industry’s long-delayed fracking drive will begin again next week, after the leading company Cuadrilla confirmed it will start working on a well in Lancashire within days.
    But Cuadrilla will not be able to frack before next Wednesday, as the high court has granted an interim injunction after Lancashire campaigner Robert Bennett filed an 11th hour legal challenge.

    Essentially, if High Court challenge is turned down, (which is predicted) Fracking in England will take off.

    The UK is one of only a few countries in Europe that allows shale gas exploration after a number of EU governments introduced bans or moratoriums on drilling in recent years.

    I think this is a sad day for the environment with untold problems ahead for those living close to such sites.

    Protests remind me of the Greenham common protests of the 80s'- I see a lot of violence and disruption ahead and that's just overground.


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