Peaceful, leafy Balcombe in West Sussex is anything but peaceful these days, ever since the Great Fracking Debate came to town and settled in. Since the US company Quadrilla made their exploratory moves, obtaining permission to drill test holes in the ever-more-desperate search for that old black gold, Balcombe is simply no longer the town […]
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Meeting held in Wells to discuss fracking issues
A lot of people were packed quite tightly in at a recent Wells town hall meeting that talked about the fracking in Somerset where many towns people talked passionately about this prospect, along with ways to stop it. Although the alarm level was high, the variety of who showed up on a rainy weekday evening […]
Investigation takes place into assessing risks from shale gas extraction
The EU Joint Research Centre has been working with the environmental consultancy firm AEA in order to assess the various risks that are associated with extracting shale gas. These projects it was feared could pose a harm to the environment, as well as human health, and this report was designed to look at whether this […]