February 25, 2015

INFRASTRUCTURE BILL : "Frack" redefinition makes any regulation useless

February 25, 2015/ Sussex Campaigner

Alarming news from the wonderful Ruth Hayhurst at drillordrop.com : in the final version of the Infrastructure Bill the definition of a 'frack' has been rewritten - it now only applies to fracturing operations that use 10,000 cubic metres of water or more. Anything less is not covered by the (already weak) regulation.

Balcombe residents calculated that 10,000 cubic metres is equivalent to 333 of the largest tankers allowed on British roads. This would only be to transport water to the site - another estimated 167 would be required to take the wastewater away.

More details can be found in the article here.

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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.

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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INFRASTRUCTURE BILL : "Frack" redefinition makes any regulation useless

Frack Free Sussex

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.

donations welcome

YOU CAN ALSO DONATE YOUR time and ENERGY!