Enter your postcode – stop Fracking

From wrongmove site:

Stop fracking now. It is unlawful for fracking companies to drill under your home without your permission. Search your postcode and join the legal block today to protect your home and community from fracking.

Just click here and enter your post code. The rest is easy!

You can stop fracking under your home now!

Every person who signs up to this postcode list will help reduce the space where fracking can occur. There have been many protests around the world about fracking. Here in the UK people have actually glued themselves to fracking sites to block frackers. This is the quickest way I have Found to express your displeasure about fracking. Of course you can always write to your MP!

During my explorations of the vast data on the net regarding fracking, I found this excellent resource. fracktracker may help you to further your cause in the USA. UK readers can help this website to start mapping in the UK too. They need the raw data about where fracking is happening in the UK. Can you help?

You know that France Banned Fracking forever!

I wrote about the insanity of David Cameron allowing Total, the French oil giant, to frack in the UK. Total has been barred from ever fracking in France. Why you ask? Simple, French people care enough about their environment and the produce they create on the land to stop fracking forever.

Lets do the same here! Sign up to the postcode list on wrongmove.

Tell them to frack off!

We can add the UK to a growing list of places around the world that have already BANNED Fracking.

Artists against fracking – we need your now! Join a list of artists against fracking.

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Ownership Is Democracy

Ownership is democracy here in the UK or anywhere. Who owns the electricity generation plants in the UK? You don’t own them. Major energy companies own them. What effect does this have on the democratic way of life we expect to enjoy?

Video #6 looks at the relationship between the owners of energy production and the power to influence the political process. EDF is working hard to remove democracy from the power industry.

EDF tried to block all protests for new nukes

In 2012 EDF filed a petition with the High Courts to block any protest against the construction of Hinkley C, or other new nuclear build projects. This is undemocratic and illegal under EU laws on human rights. This is the face of corporate ownership of energy. 

This move by EDF created a protest movement to force the courts to allow protests about new nuclear plants. A protest to allow future protests! We really have to work to keep democracy alive! Or we could own the power itself!

Power to the people creates greater democracy

It is actions like this, by the greedy power companies, that are undermining democracy of this country. When we can produce our own energy using community power schemes and roof top solar systems WE own the power of production and control of our government. The only way to achieve this is to take back public ownership of the National Grid and the gas and electricity supply.

Undemocratic deals being done for more nuke plants with Putin

In a previous blog post I exposed the work being done by this government behind closed doors to get Russia to build new nuclear plants in our country. How many of YOU would allow a oligarch like Putin, who has just annexed the Crimea using troops and propaganda, to build nuclear plants here in the UK?

I don’t understand how we can complain about the lack of freedom and democracy in China and Russia and then try to sign deals with these countries to build nuclear plants on our soil. Do you want Russia to build a new nuclear plant here in your back yard? I do not!

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You can have your say today by writing to your local and national representatives. Write to your MP now!

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Don’t Frack California Rally Sends A Message To Governor Brown

I have been blogging for some time now. The subject of fracking is like a red flag to a bull for me. I can’t look the other way while this disastrous and damaging drilling is going on anywhere in the world.

What Fracking does to YOUR environment

I find it appalling that the state of California is even considering fracking for gas in the earthquake state! California has more fault lines than Golden Eagles! Please remember that Fracking causes earthquakes!

From the LiberalsUnite article:

California is in the midst of the second worst drought in the state’s history. Until recently it was the worst, alleviated only slightly by some welcome late winter rains. Fracking is a water intensive procedure and nearly all of the water used is not recoverable to use for other purposes. With water in such short supply and farmers literally begging the state for this most precious resource, it is hard to understand why our governor, who has campaigned on his previous environmental record, would take millions of gallons of water away from the farmers who produce a quarter of the food for this country and allow it to be used by the big oil companies to despoil the environment and contribute to climate change.

David Cameron Likes fracking and so do his rich corporate Friends!

David Cameron wants to frack here and we are saying NO!

Like Californians, we can see the environmental damage fracking will cause. Earthquakes have already been linked to fracking in the UK. Protests have popped up every where that fracking is considered in England. The Barton-Moss protesters just won a court ruling allowing them to stay and continue their struggle to keep our country free from fracking.

The BBC has published an article which reveals a growing concern over the damage fracking causes to our wildlife:

Fracking has the potential to devastate wildlife habitats across the UK, says research commissioned by leading wildlife and countryside groups.

The report ‘Are We Fit to Frack?’ was launched by six organisations including the National Trust and the RSPB. It was reviewed by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and is supported by a cross party group of MPs. It contains proposals to limit the potential impact of fracking on the environment. They include setting up so-called “no frack zones” around the UK’s most sensitive conservation areas. Harry Huyton is head of energy and climate change at the RSPB. He told BBC News: “We have found that there are serious potential risks to the environment from fracking.”

France has BANNED FRACKING FOREVER

We Need to do the same here in the UK!

Write to your MP Now!

Owning our Power is the key to security

Owning our power is the key to our energy security. Owning the means to produce our energy means that we can never be held ransom by anyone person or country.

Video #5 is all about energy security. Should we be selling our energy production to foreign countries? OR, in a rapidly changing world should we be owning our electricity generation systems?

Irish Energy Supply

Owning our power and the means of production is security

Will buying back all UK energy production and energy grids help us remain independent of other countries? Can public ownership of our energy services give us the power to chose renewable energy?

Cameron selling out to French and Chinese nuclear is NOT owning our power

David Cameron recently initiated a proposal to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley in Somerset. The funding for building this new plant will come from the Chinese. British citizens will provide the tax money to underwrite this boondoggle. EDF is supposed to build and operate this new nuclear plant.

The Chinese and EDF had to be bribed with promises of twice the current rate of payment for nuclear electricity. We currently pay  £45 per Megawatt hour. the EDF and the Chinese investors will get £92.50 per Megawatt hour.

UK and Europe are opposed to nuclear power.

Fortunately there are many people in the UK and in Europe that disagree with this proposal. In the UK we have many groups and organizations working to end any thoughts about building new nuclear plants.

There were 1750 accidents, mishaps or leaks at UK nuclear plants between 2002-2009.

Here is just one good reason why. 1750! This is no random number. This is the number of accidents mishaps and leaks at UK nuclear power plants from 2002-2009.

The scale of safety problems inside Britain’s nuclear power stations has been revealed for the first time in a secret report obtained by the Observer that shows more than 1,750 leaks, breakdowns or other “events” over the past seven years.

British public will underwrite 16bil plant construction cost. Energy security or indentured servitude?

The European Union in Brussels is questioning the UK government promise to underwrite the £16bil. cost of the new plant at Hinkley.

This is not energy security. this is an energy crisis that will lead to greater insecurity of our means of generating electricity.

Write to your representative and tell them how you feel

Write to you MP now!. Tell them to stop being stupid and start building the renewable energy future we need today.

Watch the next video interview.

Wiki discusses costs of fracking

Health effects

One study suggests that hydraulic fracking is sickening and killing cows, horses, goats, llamas, chickens, dogs, cats, fish and other wildlife, as well as humans. The study covered cases in Colorado, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.^[15] The case studies include reports of hundreds of cows dying as well as stillborn and stunted calves after exposure to hydraulic fracturing spills from dumping of the fluid into streams and from workers slitting the lining of a wastewater impoundment (evaporation ponds) so that it would drain and be able to accept more waste. The wastewater then drained into a pasture and a pond. The study noted that it was difficult to assess health impact because of the industry’s strategic lobbying efforts that resulted in legislation allowing them to keep the proprietary chemicals in the fluid secret, protecting them from being held legally responsible for contamination. Bamberger stated that if you don’t know what chemicals are, you can’t conduct pre-drilling tests and establish a baseline to prove that chemicals found postdrilling are from hydraulic fracturing.^[15] The researchers recommended requiring disclosure of all hydraulic fracturing fluids, that nondisclosure agreements not be allowed when public health is at risk, testing animals raised near hydraulic fracturing sites and animal products (milk, cheese, etc.) from animal raised near hydraulic fracturing sites prior to selling them to market, monitoring of water, soil and air more closely, and testing the air, water, soil and animals prior to drilling and at regular intervals thereafter.^[15]

Early in January 2012, Christopher Portier, director of the US CDC‘s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, argued that, in addition to the EPA’s plans to investigate the impact of fracking on drinking water, additional studies should be carried out to determine whether wastewater from the wells can harm people or animals and vegetables they eat.^[16] A week later, a group of US doctors called for a moratorium on fracking in populated areas until such studies had been done.^[17][18]

Please write to your MP.

Cameron spends our money

David Cameron is again playing to the media when he promises to spend what ever it takes to mend flood damage.

Somerset floods – from the Guardian

Cameron won’t fix the problems

What he is also saying is that he will not spend any money to solve the underlying problems of flooding. by Thursday he had backtracked and was quoted in the FT:

“money is no object” in dealing with the flooding crisis, telling the House of Commons that this pledge applies only to the immediate clear-up operation…

Greenest government ever is a failure at all forms of sustainability

What this really means is that it will be business as usual for ‘the Greenest government ever.’ Cameron will continue to help out his friends in the oil and gas industry.

There will be no end to the insanity and financial ruin which up to 50 new power plants will create.

You and I will be stuck with hundreds of tons of nuclear waste: we have no place to store this waste and the cost of keeping it safe now is always going up.

We will suffer the environmental harm caused by Cameron’s friends in the fracking industry.

Please write to your representative.

Stop plans to frack in Lancashire

Fracking alert for Lancashire. News just in. Quadrilla is seeking approval to frack in Lancashire.

Read the full article

Full Article: Fracking’ bid at two new sites

Here is the article reprinted:

GAS exploration company Cuadrilla today unveiled plans to carry out fracking at two new Lancashire sites.

The firm has earmarked new exploration sites in the parishes of Treales, Crease, Roseacer and Wharles, and Westby-with-Plumptons.

Cuadrilla was today informing local residents of the plans and has set plans in motion to apply to Lancashire County Council for permission to drill up to four wells on each of the two sites. It could be a year before fracking actually begins.

The first site, at Roseacre Wood, is located to the south of the village of Roseacre. and the second is located north of Preston New Road (the A583), to the west of Little Plumpton.

Cuadrilla chief executive Francis Egan said: “This is a significant step. We know there’s a lot of gas in the ground and we need to know how much gas will flow out.”

Frack Off Quadrilla

Fracking alert for ever

We really do need to keep up the fight to stop fracking in the UK. All the money spent on fracking here is money that cant be spent on renewable energy. If we started spending more money on renewables then we would not need to frack at all.

Fracking causes environmental damage here and adds to our green house gasses. Fracking only creates more problems.

Many world wide oppose fracking

Many people in the UK, the USA, France, Germany and the rest of the world are waking up to the fraking disaster. Everywhere you go on the planet you find folks objecting to fracking.

The People of the UK are fighting to stop fracking in many places with great success.

Balcombe Fracking Protesters Stop Quadrilla

Citizens in the USA oppose fracking

Protesters take to the streets  in the US state of  New York.

New York Anti-Fracking Protesters

France banned fracking forever!

France’s constitutional court has upheld a ban on hydraulic fracturing, permanently baring the fracking business based on environmental grounds.

Anti-fracking protesters in La Petite Brosse, outside Paris. Photograph: Pierre Andrieu/AFP/Getty Images

German government agrees to ban fracking too!

German protesters have gained government agreement to ban fracking.

Germans win fracking BAN

Activists from 26 countries participated in around 250 protests on Saturday to demonstrate against fracking technologies, which they say contaminate groundwater and hasten climate change.

Here in Bucharest.

World Wide Anti-Fracking Protests

Here in Canada.

Canadian Anti-Fracking Protesters

Everywhere they want to frack we are there. Why? Because we want a world safe from pollution in our water.

Bill de Blasio Is Against Fracking

Renewable energy now to save our planet

We do this because we want to ride the roller coaster with our children.

New Jersey Shore Still Heavily Damaged Months After Hurricane Sandy

We do this because we like safe and stable ground to build our houses.

Fracking Causes Earth Quake Swarms

We need to own our means of energy production and end the greed

We do this because we are not greedy corporate profiteers.

House Republicans Have Passed 3 Bills To Help The Natural Gas Industry Just This Week

Now Are you Fracked Off ? Very Good. Time to:

Write your MP.

Write to your local council.

Write to your Congressman or Senator.

Humor is food for the soul. It can also be used to shed light on the truth hidden within an issue.

Here is a cartoon from The Ecologist website:

Oh Right! Because The Sun Won’t Charge A Fee

Enjoy your day!

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We are blessed to have so many brilliant minds creating our renewable energy future NOW! Let’s use them today to create the future we all want.

The area of renewable energy production that we will explore today is called wave energy.

Aquamarine’s wave generator

This is, to pull a pun, the wave of the future. Using nothing more than the action of waves moving towards a beach, this design can harvest the energy within the wave. Electricity generated by this action is constant, like nuclear power.

One of the LIES used to promote new nuclear power projects is that it is the only way to provide a constant source of power.  A constant source of energy is required to keep the national grid operating. This is called the grid ‘baseline.’

Every National Grid Needs a Base line

This graph is for the US grid but it is similar for the UK grid. Without a baseline of energy ‘charging’ the network of power lines, all your electricity production will sink into a black hole of energy loss. This black hole of demand is the grid itself.

Wave technology that can harvest the power of our shores will provide a constant source of energy. This constant source can be used to power our renewable energy grid of the future.

In our renewable energy future we wont have a power grid like the 19th century dinosaur we use today. Wave energy, wind farms, solar energy, and energy storage systems will make up our energy grid of the future.

We can do this!The only thing stopping the progress of renewable technologies are the greedy lying corporate interests that are ripping you off with ever higher energy bills. These corporations are being helped by the likes of David Cameron and his cronies.

Cameron has cut the Feed In Tariff, which cost UK workers between 30,000 – 40,000 jobs. Cameron then went to France to sign a new deal with EDF to build nuclear plants. Nuclear plants that the UK public have said over and over again that they don’t want. Nuclear plants that we would not need if the Feed In Tariff had been left alone to gradually reduce over time. Germany has created a mega solar industry using the same FIT method that Cameron trashed.

Cameron has now changed the government target for the ECO program. We will see 10,000 more jobs lost. Energy companies have already canceled contracts with major suppliers of efficiency measures and taken away the funding that supported these jobs. We will miss our carbon reduction targets and people will die in their thousands because of Cameron’s greed.

Germany employs over 300,000 workers in their renewable energy sector. We can do the same if we get Cameron and his Big Oil Cronies out of the way.

Wave technology is moving forward in Scotland. Jobs are being created. We can do the same thing in England. Please tell your MP to stop the madness and the greed of Cameron. Our future is at stake!

Write your MP now!