Anti-fracking movement
An anti-fracking movement has emerged both internationally, with involvement of international environmental organizations and nation states such as France, and locally in affected areas such as Balcombe in Sussex,[1] Pungești in Romania and In Salah[2] in Algeria.
Europe
UK
The Frack Off campaign is a grassroots direct action against unconventional gas and oil extraction.
North America
Environmental concerns about fracking began to take hold in the United States when Josh Fox released Gasland in 2010, a documentary on the social and environmental impacts of fracking.
Actor Mark Ruffalo, who lives in New York City, became a major opponent to fracking. Ruffalo laid out his full case against fracking in a piece co-authored with Phil Radford on CNN.com, where he argued solar and wind are here now, and using fracked natural gas instead of cleaner sources of energy will result in more faucets on fire, methane leaks that cause global warming, groundwater contamination, and cancer causing chemicals in communities.[3] In New York, more than 180 artists are recognised as members of Artists Against Fracking, a group that opposes fracking in the Marcellus shale.[4]
In film
- Split Estate (2009)
- Gasland (2010)
- Gasland: Part II (2013)
- The Sky is Pink (2013)
- Groundswell Rising (2014)
- Frack Off (UK)
- Frackman (Australia - 2015)
See also
- 2012-14 Romanian protests against shale gas
- Artists Against Fracking
- Balcombe drilling protest
- Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing
- Frack Off
- Refracktion
Notes and references
- ^ Jan Goodey (1 August 2013). "The UK's anti fracking movement is growing". The Ecologist. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Olivier Petitjean and Sophie Chapelle. "Shale gas: how Algerians rallied against the Regime and Foreign Oil Companies". multinationales.org. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ Mark Ruffalo and Phil Radford. "Don't Let America Get Fracked". CNN.com. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
- ^ Navarro, Mireya. "Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon Organize Artists Against Fracking".