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To: Liz Truss and the UK Government
NO FRACKING IN THE UK- Anti-fracking campaign
The UK Prime Minister set to announce today a reversal of the ban on fracking, in a call to produce more energy. There is no need, and we have plenty of less damaging sources of energy, and this is just trying to reverse a policy under the disguise of giving us cheap energy. Please sign to maintain the BAN on the use of fracking.
Why is this important?
Hydraulic fracturing is harmful to the climate
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If natural gas from fracking was not so long ago considered as a bridge from dirty coal to more climate friendly solutions.
Indeed, fracking has been proved to be linked to important leaks of methane – a 23 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
FRACKING Contaminates soils, air and water
We depend on clean soils in many ways. Feeding ourselves is but one. Clean air is even simpler to comprehend as we breathe the air around us. So if hydraulic fracturing pollutes both soils and air, how can we eat food grown on this land?
It Is NOT part of the vital energy transition.
Fracking is just polluting and inefficient means of heating our houses and moving our cars and trucks when better solutions are at our disposal.
Far better solutions like low carbon energy sources such as renewables (solar, wind, geothermal…) and energy efficiency can be part of an energy transition that is safe for our civilization and our climate.
An energy transition based on these two could bring thousands of local jobs and money without any risks. As a matter of facts, it has already started…
Fracking consumes vast amounts of precious water
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Water as more and more countries are getting drier, using energy sources that consumes vast amounts of water is just sheer madness. The UK is currently facing drought conditions and this is set to continue to get worse in years to come.
Climate Progress reported that each fracking job requires several million gallons of water, of which only around a quarter is being recovered.
Shale gas drilling has been linked in many occasions to FLAMMABLE drinking water. The Economist published an article on it.
Injecting in our environment a cocktail of water, sand and no less than hundreds of chemicals that can cause cancers or are neurotoxins. Not the kind of stuff you want anywhere near you…
5. Causes earthquakes
In Ohio Drilling holes in the soil and injecting massive amounts of chemicals and wastewater created earthquakes.
A recent study from one of the world’s leading seismology labs quoted by Reuters show that ” powerful earthquakes thousands of miles (km) away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery “
The US Geological Survey (USGS) linked up to 50 earthquakes to fracking in Oklahoma. Magnitudes were ranging from 1.0 to 4.0.
Puts arsenic in groundwater tables
Arsenic is a poison of choice if you want to dispose of an Emperor or a King. Most unfortunately to people near fracking wells, it also has been found in groundwater near fracking wells.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found traces of it on multiple occasions as the Los Angeles Times and ProPublica both reported.
Doesn’t benefit We, the People.
Because of all the negative side effects, the People can lose a lot because of fracking. The ones who benefit from it really are only the companies conducting it.
Rural communities can be revived thanks to wind power’s money.
Please sign to keep Fracking off the table for good, and maintain the ban on use in the UK.
How it will be delivered
To Number 10 in person.
