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Activists gather outside Sen. Mark Grisanti's office in Buffalo, NY, calling on him to take a firm stance against fracking.
Credit: Thomas Jefferson
Stop the Frack Attack National Summit at Holiday Inn - Stapleton in Denver, Colorado. Oct 3-5, 2015
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Unterzeichner*innen übergeben eine Petition zum Fracking-Gesetzentwurf an Karsten Möring (MdB) in seinem Wahlkreisbüro in Köln-Porz.
(Köln, 24.06.2015)
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Friends of the Earth Cymru
www.facebook.com/foecymrucydd?fref=ts
Frack Free Wales
www.facebook.com/pages/Frack-Free-Wales/399311250153926
4 November 2014
The response from Carwyn Jones First Minister For Wales to the post card petition handed in to the Assembly 11th Oct 2014.
Y Gwir Anrh/Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AC/AM Prif Weinidog Cymru/First Minister of Wales
Dear Gareth
4 November 2014
I am writing in response to a petition handed in to the Welsh Government offices on 11 October expressing concerns about the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract gas and oil. I am responding to Friends of the Earth Cymru as the organiser of the petition.
I understand the petition comprised around 2,080 signatories on postcards and petition papers referencing Friends of the Earth Cymru, Friends of the Earth and Frack Free Wales. A further 44 signatures were received on petition papers from Frack Free Llantrisant. The primary concerns raised by the petition are that hydraulic fracturing risks damaging the environment and will prevent the transition to a low carbon energy system.
Prior to setting out our position I must stress that oil and gas matters are not devolved to Wales and remain the responsibility of the UK Government. It is our view that the necessary powers for all energy developments in Wales should be devolved to ensure we are able to align our energy aspirations with our responsibilities to the environment and society.
The Welsh Government’s position on gas in the future energy mix is defined in our Energy Wales document. We recognise the importance of gas in the transition to a low carbon energy system as it is flexible and reliable, with lower emissions than other fossil fuels.
Unconventional gas activity in Wales is at the very early exploratory stage, and no hydraulic fracturing techniques are being used. The exploration will establish the quantity of extractable gas from unconventional hydrocarbons and provide evidence on technical issues surrounding its extraction. The Welsh Government will consider this alongside other emerging evidence on methods of exploration and development, safety issues, social, environmental and economic matters.
I would like to take this opportunity to explain how we are regulating the exploration of unconventional gas in Wales, and how we will deal with any subsequent applications for commercial development.
The UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) issue licences to operators that enable the pursuit of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons within a defined area. A licence from DECC does not constitute authorisation to drill. Operators must negotiate access with the landowner, acquire planning permission from the relevant Local Planning Authority, and obtain all the necessary permissions and consents from regulatory bodies including Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) before commencing operations.
Minerals Planning Policy Wales (MPPW) provides policy for local authorities in Wales on the issues for consideration when determining planning applications for minerals development which would include unconventional gas. MPPW provides policy guidance to ensure that minerals development does not adversely impact on the environment and nearby communities. MPPW also provides guidance on protecting areas of importance around National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Special Areas of Conservation, Sites of Specific Scientific Interest, groundwater resources and agricultural land.
A developer would also require all the necessary permits and authorisations from NRW, the environmental regulator for Wales and a statutory consultee in the planning process. NRW’s regulation and enforcement roles will help ensure onshore oil and gas operations in Wales are managed in a way that protects public health and the environment.
The HSE would also have to be notified and be satisfied about the design of the well and the developer must arrange for an independent examination of the well design by a competent well examiner. If a well encroached on coal seams, permission must also be sought from the Coal Authority. The British Geological Survey must also be notified by a developer of its intent to drill. DECC will only give consent to drill when all of the required permits and processes are in place.
It is important to note also that an application to drill an exploratory borehole to test for the presence of hydrocarbons is a separate process to any subsequent application for its commercial extraction in the same location. This would be subject to a separate planning application which would be considered on its own merits under the planning and regulatory regime described above.
The Welsh Government considers that the regulatory processes which apply to unconventional gas exploration in Wales, and the planning approach to minerals development as outlined in national policy, provide appropriate safeguards for the public and environment. We continue to consider all the available evidence relating to this resource and its potential impacts in Wales.
I am copying this letter to Frack Free Llantrisant.
Yours sincerely
Carwyn Jones
Tell the Welsh Government to ban fracking in Wales
www.foe.co.uk/act/tell-welsh-government-ban-fracking-wales
Other links to the demo:
Campaigners hold Cardiff protest against fracking
www.itv.com/news/wales/story/2014-10-11/campaigners-hold-...
www.itv.com/news/wales/topic/fracking/
Hundreds gather at anti-fracking rally in Cardiff Bay
www.foe.co.uk/cymru/english/press_releases/wales-against-...
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Unterzeichner*innen übergeben eine Petition zum Fracking-Gesetzentwurf an Karsten Möring (MdB) in seinem Wahlkreisbüro in Köln-Porz.
(Köln, 24.06.2015)
Foto: Jörn Neumann / Campact
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Dustin Chidester of Buckannon, West Virginia, walks across the site of a Rice Energy Marcellus shale drilling rig in Lone Pine, Washington County
Photograph by Michael Henninger for the Post-Gazette; Jan. 19, 2011.
Deeper into Morgan County, closer to Wartburg.
The white unmarked roads lead to bare patches - those bare patches are all gas wells.
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It's been a while since I have tried liquid nitrogen on stuff. I found some over-sized strawberries at the dollar store and decided to bring home a few liters of liquid nitrogen.
Shooting sessions with LN2 are always kind of frantic. Once the strawberries are cold and out of the liquid nitrogen they get frosty really quick.
And if they get too frosty it looks like I'm shooting a snowball instead of a strawberry.
I never got a really good shot out of about eight tries. but this one was pretty good.
Cheers.
It’s objectively too late to restrain population and consumption growth so as to avert what ecologists of the 1970s called a “hard landing.”
It is the lie that human society can continue growing its population and consumption levels indefinitely on our finite planet, and never suffer consequences.
Perhaps Donald Trump succeeded because his promises spoke to what civilizations in decline tend to want to hear. It could be argued that the pluralistic, secular, cosmopolitan, tolerant, constitutional democratic nation state is a political arrangement appropriate for a growing economy buoyed by pervasive optimism. (On a scale much smaller than contemporary America, ancient Greece and Rome during their early expansionary periods provided examples of this kind of political-social arrangement). As societies contract, people turn fearful, angry, and pessimistic—and fear, anger, and pessimism fairly dripped from Trump’s inaugural address. In periods of decline, strongmen tend to arise promising to restore past glories and to defeat domestic and foreign enemies. Repressive kleptocracies are the rule rather than the exception.
Yes.. when world leaders like Trump & Erdogan visit our country, we stage protest marches.