Written by Sophie McAdam at trueactivist.com
As the UK Government plots to fast-track fracking, activists in the USA and Australia talk about how the practice has destroyed lives, communities and the environment.
The UK Government is attempting to fast-track fracking by removing a rule that says they must consult with local residents before corporations are allowed to start test drilling.
There are proposals to begin the ecocidal practice of fracking in various areas around the UK, but one place in particular is in immediate danger. The video from British campaign group 38 Degrees details how engineering giant Cuadrilla are to go ahead with plans to frack in Lancashire, a pretty region in the north of England. As one resident points out, “what happens here will affect the rest of the UK.”
West Lancashire is a place of rolling green hills and flower-filled meadows, where sheep and cows graze happily in peace. Like many other places affected by fracking in recent years, the four proposed sites are pretty, rural, and home to thousands of residents who have vowed to fight the Government and save their land. But will that be enough?
Fracking has already begun in other parts of the world, and the video offers some stark advice from citizens in the USA and also Australia who have already suffered poor health, environmental devastation due to fracking on their doorstep.
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