Futures Forum: Fracking in Fort McMoney: a web documentary and strategy video game about Fort McMurray, the oil sands capital of Alberta, Canada
Futures Forum: "Public consistently backs solar over shale."
Futures Forum: The Infrastructure Bill, trespass law and fracking .... Parliament votes in favour
Futures Forum: How to interpret a study comparing fracking, solar power and wind turbines... “That makes it look like we are saying that solar panels are all around worse than shale gas, which... is not really what we’ve said. We are certainly not trying to say that shale gas is greener than renewables.”
And there is a lot of lobbying around fracking:
Fracking the Future - Gas Industry Lobbying Muscle
Is the Fracking Lobby Setting the EU Energy Agenda? | DeSmog UK
Green groups accuse EU shale gas panel of fracking lobby takeover | Environment | The Guardian
Just before the general election, the public interest investigator Spinwatch produced this piece:
Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed
Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:00By Melissa Jones and Andy Rowell
With the manifestos published and May's general election just a week away, fracking is looking politically toxic for candidates in communities threatened by drilling. Those in marginal seats could find themselves booted out if a recent ComRes survey proves right, with a third of people polled less likely to vote for pro-fracking politicians.
Access all areas: Westminster's (vast) fracking lobby exposed
UK Fracking Task Force calls for improved safety standards
There are ordinary people doing their own lobbying:
From HS2 and fracking to Heathrow's third runway, meet the new face of protest in the UK
From HS2 and fracking to Heathrow's third runway, meet the new face of protest in the UK - Home News - UK - The Independent
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