Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has co-signed a petition with more than 150 other famous names calling on the Government to immediately suspend the UK’s fracking drive. The 166-word letter, published today in The Times, describes how the dash to…
Santa Cruz County has become the first county in California to impose a “permanent” ban on fracking, as well as all other on-shore oil and gas development. Tuesday morning the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the pre-emptive move against hydraulic…
Poc : Keith Smith feels the chance to promote U.S. interests in the V4 countries Article from mr. Poc , although in March , but it fits into the overall picture of what is happening in the EU and Ukraine…
Prohlášení výkonného ředitele Wenonah Hauter z organizace Food & Water Watch, jménem Američany proti frakování: Washington, DC – “Jsme potěšeni dvojstranickou úsilí, které vedou senátoři Edward Markey (Dem.-Massachusetts) a Debbie Stabenow (Dem.-Michigan) tlačit na prezidenta Obamu, aby zvážil negativního dopadu…
Statement by Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch on Behalf of Americans Against Fracking Washington, D.C. – “We applaud the bipartisan effort led by Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) to pressure President Obama to consider…
This week, more evidence came in that hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) poses potentially serious risks to drinking water quality and human health. A team of researchers from the University of Missouri found evidence of hormone-disrupting activity in water located near…
Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom Neft has signed a major cooperation agreement with the huge American energy services corporation Halliburton to facilitate “technological exchanges” to boost production. “One aspect of cooperation will be special technical seminars for employees of…
The crisis in Ukraine has rekindled arguments that the U.S. should export shale gas, supposedly to diminish the threat posed by Russia’s “energy weapon.” Sadly, few seem to care about diminishing the threat posed by climate change, since it has…
Dear friends. If you want to find out details about fracking in your country, or to connect with the world antifracking movement in your country, contact one of these organisations: BC Tapwater Alliance Stop Fracking British Columbia: http://www.bctwa.org/FrackingBC.html Council of…
On Saturday, March 9, 2014 the server Novinky.cz reported that ambassadors from the V4 (Czech Rep., Poland, Slovakia and Hungary) in connection with the crisis in Ukraine and on the initiative of the V4 Presidency wrote a letter to John…