Although very relevant to Councils due to the conflict of interest, how many people really think about where their pension fund in invested? We were shocked to find out about the Council pension investments by West Sussex, Kent and Greater Manchester Councils.

To lobby your pension fund company directly using this website:
http://action.shareaction.org/page/content/greentlightlanding/

If you are a stakeholder in a Council pension, write to your Union and your employer... why are YOU supporting this?!

On West Sussex County Council's website it states: "The Pensions Panel has directed the fund managers, in acting in the best financial interests of the scheme, to consider, amongst other factors, the effects of social, environmental and ethical issues of the performance of a company when considering the acquisition, retention or realisation of investments for the scheme."

News sources:

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2295694/planners_pension_funds_set_to_win_from_fracking_permissions.html

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11038176.West_Sussex_council_invests_in_fracking_firms/

http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/Kent-s-pension-links-fracking-firms-revealed/story-19939601-detail/story.html

Government plans to allow fracking for gas and oil across the Sussex Weald. To be economically viable this would require thousands of wells to be drilled across our county. Our downland, meadowland, farmland and woodland would be subject to wide-scale industrialisation.

In the USA, towns near fracking sites have seen cancer rates rising, water supplies running out and the poisoning of land, livestock, pets and people by hazardous air pollutants. Water that was once pristine is now so contaminated with methane that it can be set alight. Industry studies show 5-7% of all new oil and gas wells leak and ALL wells will leak eventually.

Our water supply, which comes predominantly from the chalk aquifer, would be threatened.

Property values are falling in areas near drilling sites.

Even the energy secretary says fracking WON’T REDUCE ENERGY BILLS.

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West Sussex council invests in fracking....

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Government plans to allow fracking for gas and oil across the Sussex Weald. To be economically viable this would require thousands of wells to be drilled across our county. Our downland, meadowland, farmland and woodland would be subject to wide-scale industrialisation.

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