Tag: fracking
Climate Justice: new hope for radical action on climate change
By Nick Meynen. In the last two decades, momentum for action on climate change rose before 1997 (Kyoto Protocol), and before 2009 (Copenhagen Agreement) –…
Don’t frack the Basque Country! (conflicts around gas extraction by fracking)
By Leire Urkidi. Leave the gas under the grass or in Basque: Utzi bakean, ta gasa lurrean! The plans started in 2006 but it was…
Global frackdown on fracking companies: 22 September (www.globalfrackdown.org)
By Maxime Combes In January 2011, the Board of Attac France decided that mobilization against shale gas, shale oil and fracking, and more broadly against…
Unconventional oil and gas: signs of a system in crisis
The mid-term fate of which fuel will drive Europe might be decided by an answer to this very simple question: are the French and Bulgarian…
Pressure rising: from anti-shale gas victories to a big debate on oil and gas exploration
By Nick Meynen and Maxime Combes. Texas based Noble Energy recently became the first company to receive a permit for deep-sea drilling in the Gulf…
Shale gas fracking in Bulgaria freezes under public pressure
(By Konstantin Dichev and Dragomira Raeva) Bulgarian people want clean water and a healthy future for their children, instead of false promises for cheap shale…
