We must not allow the UK Government to sanction this ecocidal practice on our shores.
DECC (the Department of Energy and Climate Change) has issued a deeply irresponsible, inaccurate and misleading report asserting that fracking is safe. It is manifestly clear - from corporate structures and government appointments etc, that many of our legislators are misled by and/or in league with the industry.
It is now down to the British public – every one of us – to exercise our diplomatic rights to express our outrage at cynical moves to further this energy procurement technique that threatens to harm us all.
Pressingly, please object formally to the critical English precedent of UK Methane’s application to frack for Coal Bed Methane near Bristol: guide-to-objecting-uk-methane-application-keynsham-somerset
Please write to your MP/ MEPs / Councillors to express your disquiet about our government’s deeply irresponsible “Dash for Gas”
Details here of points to note in your objection, and template letters to MPs/MEPs and Parish/District/County Councillors are linked below.
Please also go to the 38 Degrees website here and vote for them to get behind the campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of fracking. Add comments too, to help them understand how important it is to get behind this campaign.
“Like” and follow the Facebook Pages for ongoing developments:
Frack Free Sussex https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frack-Free-Sussex/263678780394181?sk=info
BIFF! Britain & Ireland Frack Free https://www.facebook.com/britainandirelandfrackfree?ref=ts
Write to your Water Authorities/Companies, give them encouragement and ask their position on the threat that hydraulic fracturing poses to our water supplies. For more info, click here.
Adapt and send this letter to any Parish, District/Town Councillors in the UK. The drilling/fracking permissions/licenses have been getting through, partly through euphemistic subterfuge and partly because our Local Govmnt Representatives didn’t know what they were saying yes to. LETS’ MAKE SURE THEY NOW KNOW WHAT TO SAY NO TO!
(Use this quick tool to locate your District & County Councilors’ addresses)
Use this template letter to write to your MP/MEP, local businesses, Schools, Kindergartens, Hospitals, Councils, Wildlife Trusts, Water Companies, Farms etc… and anyone else you can think of … to raise awareness of threatened fracking.
Find your MP/MEPs email addresses here (send it by post too if you can, for greater effect) and encourage them to sign the Early Day Motion calling for a UK moratorium on fracking.
You could also email our local MP, Francis Maude, and tell him your thoughts about Hydraulic Fracturing in the village – francismaudemp@parliament.uk
Especially in the light of this revelation about Mr Maude’s appointment to the Cabinet Office, of Lord Browne, Director of Cuadrilla Holdings.
Do print out our Frack Free Zone flyers for doors, windows and cars -
You can also write to your MP – wherever you are in the UK – and ask her/him to support the Early Day Motion calling for a Moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
Early Day Motion 2292 – HYDRAULIC FRACTURING (FRACKING) (No. 2)
http://www.parliament.uk
Write to your MEP,MSP, too. To get their names and adresses go to
http://www.writetothem.com/
and enter your postcode.
Come on guys, its all well and good writing to MP’s and various politicians and educating the masses about this but what we need is real action – Peaceful protests, sit ins etc. I feel that what we are being told by government authorities isn’t the truth and we are letting the foothold take place under our noses.
Is anyone up for getting involved ?
Can you be in Manchester on 17th March?
Fraid not Miss Balaclava, I am already going to a protest in Hove (nxt door to Brighton) about the NHS cuts.
Please keep me informed of anything else.
Thanks – Iain
Dear Balcombe,
I am shocked and stunned that fracking is being considered as a way for the major energy companies to produce cheaper electricity. I believe in renewable energy and realistic energy solutions. Fracking is neither in my humble opinion. It must not go ahead. It will potentially endanger and certainly alter many communities in Britain. It will also push back incentives for energy companies to look to renewable energy sources. I use the word renewable rather than alternative because work like this will be “justified” by semantics.
I wish you well in your struggle and I will be writing to your MP.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Ginn