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nando161mando · 7 months

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drumlincountry · 9 months

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It feels soooo silly to be like ‘holy shit, did you know oil & gas companies are evil?’ like ‘wooow omg did you know water is weT?’

But I was at a talk yesterday about fracking & they’re just, SO evil. It’s insane how evil they are?

First off, they are deliberately targeting traumatised communities. The activists I was listening to were from Northern Ireland, where approx 45% of adults have PTSD. The oil and gas companies were targeting NI because 1. the communities are so divided by the Troubles that they can’t always put prejudice aside to fight a big complicated fight, 2. similarly the political structures in NI exist on a sliding scale between ‘weak’ and ‘nonfunctional’, due to all the trauma and violence and division & they can’t effectively like, pass laws preventing extraction.

BUT if you do manage to develop laws preventing extraction, you’re still not safe ....because the oil and gas companies just change their terms! Say you outlaw fracking, right - they come back in two years time saying ‘ok, this thing we want to do now is the exact same industrial process, EXCEPT we are using a SLIGHTLY different machine so we aren’t calling it ‘fracking’ anymore. Now it’s called [dumb new acronym], and its totally legal!’

Oil and Gas companies lied consistently about the health impact of drilling/fracking/extraction on local communities, while the medical & scientific community spent decades building up irrefutable evidence that living near oil, gas, or coal extraction sites increases asthma, autoimmune diseases, infertility, cancer risk, etc.

Then what do the oil and gas companies do when they can’t lie anymore??? they just IGNORE IT. One activist (who was also a doctor) had a meeting with senior civil servants asking them to justify giving extraction licenses, given the health implications. And the senior civil servants said WAIT. WHAT HEALTH IMPACTS? WE’VE BEEN IN TALKS WITH THIS COMPANY FOR 3 YEARS NO ONE MENTIONED ANY HEALTH IMPACTS?

If you manage to create the community power & political will to prevent them from extracting oil and gas – they sue you for lost earnings! Millions & billions of pounds, euros, etc. Because there’s some international energy agreement that means they could have expected to earn money drilling somewhere, and you subvert that expectation, they can SUE YOU for what they ARGUE they MIGHT HAVE earned from drilling down there.

So now, when people create geothermal energy infrastructure, that involves drilling down into rock. If an oil or gas company gets their hands on that rock sample and finds there might be oil or gas down there, they can turn up out of NOWHERE and say ‘hey, we want to drill under this city centre because we saw there’s probably oil down there’ & the city are like ‘wtf? No?’ to which, oil and gas companies can say ‘yes. I expected you to say that. We’re now suing you for €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€!’

evil! evil! evil! evil!

#if u need any more proof oil and gas companies are evil #try researching any of this on wikipedia #anything vaguely antifracking is a half sentence clause like #while there are concerns about the health impacts; the benefits of having to transport gas over less distance makes fracking an advantage !#me fein

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materialsworld · 6 years

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UK jails anti-frackers

and why we should all be concerned about prison time for peaceful protestors.

By Ceri jones

Fracking splits opinions, but even more so today. It’s true that, for the time being at least, we need hydrocarbons. Regardless of partial or ‘some day’ alternatives in the energy mix, right now we’re dependent on affordable sources of dirty energy.

But today marks the first time since 1932 that an environmental protester has been sentenced to jail .

Anti-fracking protestors held red roses in support of the men.

Fracking in the UK

Energy company Cuadrilla was granted a licence to drill for shale gas near Preston New Road in the north of England in October 2016. Operations kicked off to construct a fracking pad at the site near Blackpool in January 2017, then on 25 July a convoy of lorries moved in to deliver drilling equipment.

While many members of the local community were up in arms over the decision, four protestors took direct action by climbing on top of lorries – Simon Roscoe Blevins from Sheffield, Richard Roberts from London, Richard Loizou from Devon and Julian Brock from Torquay.

Unable to proceed, the lorries came to standstill and the men sat tight, supplied with food, drinks and blankets by other protestors. Of course, this couldn’t last forever and eventually Loizou descended, closely followed by Blevins and Roberts, and Brock the following day. All were arrested.

Sentencing protestors

Today in Preston Crown Court, Judge Robert Altham sentenced Blevins and Roberts to 16 months in prison, Loizou to 15 months in prison, and Brock to a 12-month suspended sentence, a hefty price for a combined 276 hours sitting atop lorries.

Altham said that, despite their serious concerns for the environment, the defendants saw the public as “necessary and justified collateral damage”. This collateral damage was reported by prosecutor Craig MacGregor as travel disruption, disruption to local residents and loss of trade for businesses over a period of less than four days. However, this translated to police costs and loss of money for Cuadrilla – the biggest factors – totalling £12,000 and £50,000 respectively.

Reminding the court of citizens’ rights to peaceful protests, and that no persons or equipment were damaged, Kirsty Brimelow QC, representing Roberts, pushed the men’s good intentions and said, ‘It is relevant that there is a huge amount of scientific study that points to the damage of increasing climate emissions,’ and she indicated intergovernmental climate panel findings that climate change would displace 75 million people by 2035 and lead to the extinction of one in four species by 2050.

Your opinion on fracking

Whatever your opinion on fracking, an open dialogue cannot be had unless all factors are taken into account, including our urgent and growing need for energy security and that studies have proven that fracking produces radioactive waste.

Added to this, local authority Lancashire County Council opposed the drilling and more than 300 protestors have been arrested since operations started. So it seems that those most likely to be affected by the fracking are the ones not being allowed to exercise their freedom of speech, or had their concerns fall on deaf ears.

Whereas, the government and Cuadrilla stand to earn a great deal of money in their determination to tap that gas.

Industry, economy, business - when is it ever simple? However, it’s essential to keep the conversation open to find a better way to power the country without compromising the people prepared to protect it.

We’d love to hear your thoughts.

Source information from the Guardian.

#protest #protestors #fracking #antifracking #natural gas #law #opinion #energy

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rumade · 5 years

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UK antifracking protesters put themselves on the line with a lock on that lasted multiple days! They have been ordered by the courts to pay a fine- can you chip in and help?

#water is life #fracking #antifracking #protest #protests #environmental protest #environmental justice #activists #activism #eco warrior #lock on #anarchist #fundraiser

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jessejunkocreates · 4 years

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freddodesigns-blog · 6 years

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Reposting @worldenergysolutions: It was all a dream ... 😍 the world is full of beauty. Appreciate and look after the places we’ve been given ❤️ 🗺 . . . . • • • • • #worldenergysolutions #world #earth #planet #space #universe #instanature #mothernature #antifracking #travelling #traveler #tourism #travelingram #igtravel #europe #traveller #travelblog #tourist #travelblogger #traveltheworld #roadtrip #instatraveling #instapassport #instago #outdoors #ocean #mytravelgram #traveladdict #hiking #lonelyplanet

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radicalgraff · 7 years

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Impeach Freight

#impeach #graff #freight #antifracking #fracking #anti-fracking #anti-mining #csg #bombing #freight bombing #gtraffiti #vandalism #ecology #ocide #environmentalism

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tomairey · 5 years

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Images for BBC feature on fracking in North Yorkshire, published in November 2017 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-41864886

#fracking #bbc #kirby misperton #antifracking #anti-fracking #protest #North Yorkshire Police #Yorkshire #shale gas #Malton #Dog #slogan #march

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jimdhope · 7 years

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One of my latest creations made as part of my Digital Image Production Module on my degree.

#eastridingcollege #degree #antifracking

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tumblingxelian · 6 years

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THE BENTLEY EFFECT

#Vimeo #thebentleyeffect #fracking #antifracking #doco #trailer #northernrivers #brendanshoebridge #movie

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petrosapian · 5 years

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Gotta start making more anti argit posts. He called me a powerhungry slut when i asked him if he to sign an antifracking petition in front of a 7-11.

#pap.txt #he hates women we all know this

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nando161mando · 2 months

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Treasurer: scrap public money handouts for gas

Fracking corporation Empire Energy is under investigation for wrongfully using $28.7 million in "research and development" public funding for gas exploration.1

The scheme forbids funds being used for gas exploration, but Empire Energy thinks they can get away with it – boasting about the public funding to draw investors for their dangerous fracking plans.2,3,4

Together we need to ramp up the pressure on the Albanese Government to claw back these millions of dollars before Empire Energy makes key investment decisions.

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davidhop · 6 years

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Protest efficiency today! #peoplesvotemarch #antifracking #fracking (at Army & Navy Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKYjZtlbhF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hz4vbs2dycb0

#peoplesvotemarch #antifracking #fracking

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cal-the-social-hermit · 6 years

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Writing to #FrackFreeFour Prisoners

The three anti-fracking activists sentenced on 26 September are currently in HMP Preston (although they are likely to be moved to another prison). Writing to them is a way to show your solidarity, as well as vital to building strong movements in which we take care of each other.

To write in, your need to include your name, address and date of birth on any card or letter and their prison numbers on both the envelope and letter, which are:

Richard Roberts: A9915EF

Roscoe Blevins: A9902EF

Richard Loizou: tbc

The address is HMP Preston, 2 Ribbleton Lane, Preston, Lancs, PR1 5AB

We urge you to also donate to the support fund that will help to provide support such as travel costs of family or friends visiting.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/writing-to-frackfreefour-prisoners/

#antifracking #fracking #political prisoners

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rumade · 6 years

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The law locks up the man and woman,

That resist the fracking of the common,