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Ten activists from the Shale Must Fall network, Gastivists Collective, and Climate Camp Scotland beamed a series of unpermitted 40-meter “guerrilla projections” onto the iconic COP26 Climate Summit venue in Glasgow. This action came just days after leaked European Commission documents revealed plans to fast-track approval to 30 new fossil gas infrastructure projects through the “Projects of Common Interest” (PCI) list. The images – which included scandalous infrared images of methane leakage from British and European fossil gas infrastructure – were aimed at drawing attention to the “Methane Gap” between what was promised in the Global Methane Pledge and the construction of new methane infrastructure in Europe.
“The European Commission’s likely decision to support up to 30 new fossil gas infrastructure projects shows the huge gap between political rhetoric at COP26 and policy back in Brussels. Fossil gas production leaks methane every step of the way: from fracking to freezing to shipping to piping, reducing those super-charged emissions is the low-hanging fruit for climate action, but those emissions need to be treated holistically,” said Neal Huddon-Cossar of the Gastivists Collective. “Putting a few bandaids over the leaks isn’t getting to the root of the problem – our governments need to stop importing methane and commit to leaving greenhouse gases where they belong – underground.”
The European Commission's 5th proposed “Projects of Common Interest" include the contentious EastMed deep-sea gas pipeline that would bring fossil gas into Europe from the disputed waters of Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey. The PCI list gives projects fast-tracked priority for funding, permitting, and support at the EU level. Infrared monitoring technologies, such as those projected during the action, have raised the profile and awareness about the role of methane leaks from fracking and fossil gas infrastructure in contributing to global warming. Methane, conventionally sold as “natural gas,” is both a fossil fuel and a greenhouse gas more than 100 times more potent than CO2 while in the atmosphere. Europe is responsible for nearly half of global gas imports, and in Europe, fossil gas is already responsible for more CO2 emissions than coal.
“We are in Glasgow to denounce the genocide and ethnic cleansing being committed by extractivist European corporations that have already taken the life of activists like Samir Flores,” said Miriam Vargas of the Futuros Indigenas network in Mexico. “We denounce that corporations keep extracting land, water, lives, and peace from our territories. We demand an immediate stop to this nonconsensual extraction in our territory.”
The action sought to strengthen the international push to force governments to abandon the construction of new methane infrastructure globally and declare a global fracking ban.
“This is not terribly complicated: methane is a super-charged greenhouse gas that is already underground – all we have to do is leave it there. The fact that Scotland deems it dangerous to frack here and yet continues to allow Ineos to import fracked gas is simply immoral – if it's not okay to frack here, it's not okay to pay someone else to do it,” said Jemma Kettlewell of Climate Camp Scotland. “Europe tries to hide the true emissions of fossil gas imports, but methane doesn’t stop at our borders. Whether we import it to burn, or to make plastics, or to make petrochemicals, imported methane comes with a heavy price tag for the climate, not to mention the impacts of such industries on local communities like Mossmorran. Any European energy strategy that continues to rely on leaky, immoral, expensive, and imported fossil gas simply has no place in our clean energy future.”
Photo by Christian-Alexandru Popa
The residents of the Riverdale Motor Home Park, on the banks on the Susquahanna River, face eviction from their homes to make way for a fracking pump station run by Aqua America in Jersey Shore, PA on June 4, 2012.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
The residents of the Riverdale Motor Home Park, on the banks on the Susquahanna River, face eviction from their homes to make way for a fracking pump station run by Aqua America in Jersey Shore, PA on June 4, 2012.
Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in Annapolis to rally against immediate fracking in Maryland.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in rallying against immediate fracking in Maryland.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
The residents of the Riverdale Motor Home Park, on the banks on the Susquahanna River, face eviction from their homes to make way for a fracking pump station run by Aqua America in Jersey Shore, PA on June 4, 2012.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photo credit: Roger Smith @rjsphoto
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit at Holiday Inn - Stapleton in Denver, Oct 3-5
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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Photos taken at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver at the Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Caterpillar V-12 engine powers Halliburton mobile hydraulic fracturing systems. These three are named Michelle, Julie and Cher. Refueling near Oakley, KS, these rigs work the Niobrara shale formation.
This is Morgan County, right next to Oliver Springs.
This is where we did our field work in March.
The white unmarked roads lead to bare patches - those bare patches are all gas wells.
These are screenshots from Google maps, used under fair use guidelines.
Anti-Fracking Critical Mass Bike Ride and Chevron Blockade - Saturday March 30th
"American oil giant Chevron wants to build a destructive pipeline across unceded indigenous territory to carry fracked gas to the coast, and export climate change to the world. We say NO. We do not need fracked gas, we do not want another pipeline and we will not stand by as colonial governments and greedy corporations push us over the climate catastrophe cliff edge."
socialcoast.org/home/media-releases/item/call-for-solidar...
Global Day of Action against Chevron and the Pacific Trail Pipeline
"Chevron is the new corporate face of the Pacific Trail Pipeline project, having recently become 50/50 partners with Apache to build a fracking gas pipeline across 500 kilometres of largely unceded land, from Summit Lake to LNG plants planned for Kitimat."
www.facebook.com/events/137069669801177/
"Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing includes the potential contamination of ground water, risks to air quality, the potential migration of gases and hydraulic fracturing chemicals to the surface, the potential mishandling of waste, and the health effects of these, like cancer."
"It has been reported that Industry and governmental pressure have made it difficult to conduct and report the results of comprehensive studies of hydraulic fracturing. EPA investigations into the oil and gas industry's environmental impact have been narrowed in scope and/or had negative findings removed due to industry and government pressure."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_hydraulic_f...
Video of the Chevron Bike Blockade on unceded Coast Salish territories;
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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If you would like to use my photographs, please seek permission beforehand. Copyright © Adela Nistora (www.adelanistora.com)
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in rallying against immediate fracking in Maryland.
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in Annapolis to rally against immediate fracking in Maryland.
On Saturday October 11, 2014, I attended a protest in Parliament Square, opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a dangerous new EU-US trade deal, which, if passed, as the organisers of the London event explained, "would grant corporations the power to sue governments, threatening to lock-in the privatisation of our schools and NHS. Rules that protect workers, the environment, food safety, digital rights and privacy would be undermined, with harmful industries like fracking encouraged." This photo is of a protestor campaigning against the monstrosity that is fracking.
The London event was part of a day of action across Europe and the UK, and the events across all the countries were attended by a significant number of people, although only a few hundred people attended the London event, sharing Parliament Square with Kurdish campaigners.
I was delighted to speak to RT's Harry Fear for a televised broadcast, which is available via the link below, and I encourage people to find out more about TTIP via the links below:
For my appearance on RT, see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcM0Z8Addc
For campaigns against fracking, see: frack-off.org.uk/
www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/fracking
www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/issues/fracking_backgroun...
For George Monbiot's column on TTIP from November 2013, see:
For my recent article, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/10/10/please-join-the-euro...
For the UK #noTIPP website, see: www.noTTIP.org.uk/
For the European site, see: www.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu/en/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK. A kitchen sink found at the site made campers talk about a scene in Gasland, the documentary. In the film, a man sets fire to his tap water, showing the impact of gas drilling operations nearby his home, in the US.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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If you would like to use my photographs, please seek permission beforehand. Copyright © Adela Nistora (www.adelanistora.com)
In March 2013, the Maryland Sierra Club joins fellow environmentalists in rallying against immediate fracking in Maryland.
We are a coalition of community groups, citizen activists and environmental organizations from across the country who share a common concern over the spread of oil and gas drilling near our neighborhoods. The purpose of this event is to bring together thousands of people from each oil and gas drilling state to a family-friendly rally at the Capitol.
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith
Photos at the 2015 Stop the Frack Attack National Summit in Denver, Holiday Inn - Stapleton
Photo credit: Roger Smith