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Fracking – our future fossil fuel?

The UK Government has recently released a map showing how much of the UK landscape is eligible for fracking. I recently read a very good piece on fracking in the December 2013 edition of New Internationalist magazine. I would recommend … Continue reading

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#fracking – potential changes to Scottish Planning Policy

The Scottish Parliament have proposed changes to their national planning policy framework that will make it more difficult for companies interested in unconventional gas extraction (or fracking). It should be noted this is only a draft proposal and needs to … Continue reading

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Scotland 2030: a ‘frack’ free future

The title of this post is a bit of a cheat as the subject of fracking never came up at the recent People’s Gathering. Instead it was part of Friends of The Earth Scotland‘s AGM that I attended a couple … Continue reading

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