Oct 29 2013
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/naturalresources/article3907511.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard- (News in The Times today, you can only see the first part of the story unless you are a subscriber) Click on links below in red in text for articles ‘Regulatory setbacks’ We must try to imagine how difficult it is to be working at the Environment Agency….. realising that someone in local …
Oct 22 2013
GO BARBARA! http://www.salfordonline.com/localnews_page/46014-mp_objects_to_toxic_threat_of_igas_salford_deep_drilling_permit.html
Oct 20 2013
It’s fast progress on site at Barton Moss as the defences are being built high and strong to defend from the passing birdwatchers…… Barton Moss site yesterday: operators building the defences Police have bullied a birdwatching event from happening near the site- in spite of it being clearly advertised as a nature lovers, family …
Oct 19 2013
‘Over the next 20 years, the BBC is due to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in licence-fee payers’ money to the Peel Group, one of the largest private-owned property companies in the UK. At the apex of its complex corporate structures sits John Whittaker, a fearsome dealmaker whose aggressive business strategies have …
Oct 15 2013
A reply came today to a Freedom of Information Request sent to Salford City Council which enquired if there is a Radioactive Waste Permit for the works at the Barton Moss site. SCC ‘are not aware of any such application being submitted to the Council’. We are aware that the Public consultation for IGas Mining …
Oct 14 2013
Greenpeace have put together a frac tracker to see if your postcode is under threat of a PEDL licesnce to drill. You CAN block this drilling as it is still trespass. STOP the drilling legally here.
Oct 13 2013
Friends of The Earth have created a link with draft letters for the Davyhlme application. Barton Moss Mining Waste Permit consultation now under review at Environment Agency. You can still appeal to Trafford Council about the Davyhulme site- see https://frackfreegtrmanchester.org.uk/upcoming-events/public-consultation-for-mining-waste-permit-application/
Oct 12 2013
So where will all the drill cuttings go in the UK if unconventional onshore gas / oil exploration and extraction happens? QUOTE (abstract): In the 3-month first quarter of 2013, there were already 230 incidents of waste being rejected at landfills. Doing the maths: 230/3 months = 77 incidents per month, 25 rejected loads per day. …
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