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To: Prime Minister David Cameron

Stop Fracking Censorship

Release the Government ‘Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report in full before MPs are asked to vote on the contentious Infrastructure Bill. Stop the cover up!

Why is this important?

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has heavily censored the only public version of the Government’s report ‘Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts’. Although the Government has repeatedly said 'the public should be given all the facts’, this report was redacted 63 times, including the section on how fracking could affect house prices. DEFRA claim this was best for ‘public interest’.

Within the next couple of weeks MPs will vote on the Infrastructure Bill, which proposes controversial changes to our Trespass Laws that will erode our land rights, and pave the way for fracking. Two Tory MPs have already urged David Cameron to release the report in full. Other MPs have also asked to see the complete report, yet still it remains redacted. It’s crucial that what’s hidden in this report is released before the Infrastructure Bill is finally voted on in Parliament, so that MPs can properly understand impacts that fracking will have on our house prices and our communities.

We all deserve to see the censored material in this important document that our government is keeping from us.

How it will be delivered

In person.

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Updates

2015-03-12 15:24:02 +0000

5,000 signatures reached

2015-01-07 20:45:56 +0000

1,000 signatures reached

2015-01-07 11:36:53 +0000

500 signatures reached

2015-01-06 23:29:25 +0000

100 signatures reached

2015-01-06 22:33:30 +0000

50 signatures reached

2015-01-06 22:11:52 +0000

25 signatures reached

2015-01-06 22:00:49 +0000

10 signatures reached