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#KillTheBill Netpol calls for anti-fracking campaigners to share their experiences with MPs and peers
Netpol is encouraging campaigners who for years have fought to stop fracking in their communities to share their experiences of the oppressive and violent policing at protests with Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. Continue reading
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What’s Good For the Price of Oil……. By S. Artesian
1. Staggering under the weight of its overproduction, capitalism spies in the visage of its recent savior, China, the image of its once and future enemy, China. Every thing that was the producer of “recovery,” “growth,” “expansion,” — fracked oil, microprocessors, corn, soybeans, smartphones, flat screens, container ships, becomes a relation of relapse, decline, contraction. Continue reading
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Fracking industry and resigning tsar Natascha Engel hit full media spin cycle on quake rules By Melissa Jones
As an exercise in coordinated media spin, it was a tour de force. UK shale gas commissioner Natascha Engel’s resignation last weekend just seven months into a two-year taxpayer-funded appointment had astute industry PR gloves all over it. Continue reading
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UK: ‘massive victory’ as injunction against anti-shale campaigners ruled ‘unlawful’ By Andy Rowell
Yesterday, Britain’s fledgling shale gas industry was dealt another significant blow when three senior judges overturned a draconian injunction that had been granted to the company, INEOS, against anti-fracking campaigners. Continue reading
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Direct Action and the British State By Craig MURRAY
The draconian sentencing to jail of anti-fracking activists for non-violent direct action has received insufficient attention. It is a confident state that can undertake to bring back a level of repression not seen for decades – eight decades, in fact, since environmental activists received this kind of lengthy jail sentence, despite generations of tree climbing… Continue reading
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The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
The fracking industry in the US currently has no feasible way to dispose of its wastewater using environmentally safe methods … and yet it pushes on full speed ahead. Continue reading
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Video: A Chilling effect on the right to protest
27 July 2017 — The Canary Watch the shocking film that shows how low the police will go to protect the interests of big business A new film released by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) reveals the lengths to which the police are prepared to go in preventing protest; and how far they are Continue reading
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Video: Local Community ‘Put Their Bodies On the Line’ to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Local Community 'Put Their Bodies On the Line' to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: UK Police Intensifies Crackdown on Environmental Protests
Police observer group Netpol has documented an increasingly harsh crackdown on anti-fracking protesters in the UK, often in collusion with fracking companies Continue reading
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Tell INEOS not to frack the UK!
Petrochemical giant INEOS is planning to flood the UK with fracking wells. And this week we learnt how the government plans to bribe people with cash payments to allow fracking in their community. Continue reading
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Fracked Up! Unless we stop them
The government’s plans on fracking have been exposed. It’s been leaked that they’re trying to change the law so dirty energy companies can drill for gas in our countryside – regardless of what local communities want. Continue reading
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Fracking F**ked in Lancashire
MASSIVE news just in – people power has stopped fracking in Lancashire. Local residents, supported by thousands of us from across the UK, persuaded the council to vote down the frackers’ plans. Continue reading
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Fracking Hell
21 June 2015 — 38 Degrees If you’ve ever wondered what happens when politicians cave in to dirty energy, here’s the answer: Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Dealt Huge Blow by Downgrade of Monterey Shale Formation By Dylan and Jo Murphy
The myth of American energy independence from fracking has been dealt a huge blow by the downgrade of recoverable oil from the Monterey shale formation. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has slashed its estimate of oil reserves from the Monterey shale formation by a massive 96%. Continue reading
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Event: People’s Europe versus Corporate Europe: What should the Left be demanding of Europe?
From the proposed TTIP trade deal, to fracking and the privatisation of our NHS, the EU too often operates in the corporate interest. Across Europe we are faced with the choice of neoliberal technocrats or far-right nationalists. Event Tuesday, 20 May 2014, House Of Commons Continue reading
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Washington‘s Shale Boom Going Bust By William Engdahl
To read the headlines, it seems that the USA has emerged out of the blue to the point of becoming the world’s oil and gas production giant. All thanks to the Shale Revolution. Recently President Obama made various noises that the US could solve the Ukraine gas dependency on Russian gas because of the spectacular… Continue reading
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Selling Hydraulic Fracking: The Myth Of Energy Independence Used To Hoodwink The American People By Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy
In the last year the corporate media has been full of triumphant articles declaring that America is on the way to becoming energy independent thanks to oil and gas fracking. The hyperbole goes further declaring that fracking will lead to America overtaking Saudia Arabia as the world’s biggest oil producer and so become an oil… Continue reading
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Barton Moss: policing in the absence of democracy By David Cullen
Violence has been a running theme within the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss. Individual officers are acting with impunity. Is this reflective of a policing strategy seeking to disrupt the protests on behalf of vested interests? Continue reading
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Sanctions on Russia’s Energy Sector: Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Will Invade Europe? By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Fracking will be “good for our country,” was a statement made by British Prime Minister David Cameron at a recent Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague according to the UK based news agency The Guardian. Cameron believes that the fracking industry will have the public’s support since reliance on Russia’s energy sources will be halted… Continue reading
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