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The Tory-led coalition government is about to undermine home owners throughout the UK by changing the law in order to allow Fracking companies to sink wells near any residential property and drill and fracture the rock beneath them – all without even notifying you as the home owner. Apart from the loss of equity as a result of properties near Fracking wells losing market value, the reality is that the future integrity of any buildings, including homes; is being compromised by a process that fractures the ground beneath them. There is to date no real scientific evidence that Fracking is actually safe and will not lead to the collapse of the bedrock or surface earth above the areas that have been fractured by the process of blasting thousands of gallons of water and chemicals into the bedrock in order to release trapped gases. In fact many involved in the industry admit it is only a matter of time when the bedrock collapses, not if it does, according to a recent Channel 4 News report! Furthermore, the wells that burn off the gas as it escapes from the ground are adding to the greenhouse gas problem that is currently creating the warming of the planet. As a result, climate change has become the greatest threat to human life on this planet, that human beings have ever had to deal with. Following very successful campaigns by Greenpeace and 38 Degrees to alert the public to the environmental and personal impact of Fracking, Downing Street is fully aware of the public concern and opposition to Fracking.
This, it seems is why Cameron and his government intend to change the law so that Fracking can take place beneath homes and other private property without the knowledge or consent of the owner. Further, as has been seen so many times over the last year or so, the police and spurious public order offences are being used to halt those wishing to exercise their right to protect against activities and decisions which they oppose and see as being potentially harmful to them. Indeed, only this week, Green MP Caroline Lucas, has been acquitted of all charges relating to participating in a peaceful protest against fracking in Balcombe. “On fracking, Labour are currently fudging the issue, and the coalition government is busy making things easier for frackers and harder for the wind industry, even threatening to dismantle existing wind turbines, allegedly on the grounds of on-shore wind being unpopular. UKIP are the only party officially denying climate change, and even their voters prefer wind to shale. So, unless Brighton's Green Party voters are all wildly enthusiastic about fracking, it would seem that there is only one MP in Parliament accurately representing their voters, or anyone’s voters, on this issue.” Despite this and on the back of the IPCC report into Climate Change published in March, the media in the form of newspapers, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, continue to distort the realities of the issues.; claiming endorsement of Fracking by the UN panel of experts. Whilst the IPCC acknowledge that shale gas production can be a 'bridging technology', they also say that natural gas burning is only effective in tackling climate change if it is accompanied by Carbon Capture and Storage technology (CCS). It is hard to see all of the tens of thousands of Shale Gas wells around the world that burn off escaping shale gas emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as they do in the USA, suddenly utilising CCS! Source: Marine and Petroleum Geology / Greenpeace / IPCC / Channel 4 News Study Raises Concerns Over Fracking Dangers Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Warn Of Possible Catastrophe |
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