38 degrees
By Stewart K
Jun 6th, 2017
More than 22,000 of us have told the Scottish
Government to ban fracking. Last week we handed in our petition to the Scottish
Government’s energy minister, Paul Wheelhouse. Along with other campaigners
we’ve submitted our objections to fracking as part of the Scottish Government’s
consultation on it.
But that’s not all we’ve done. 38 Degrees members have
crowdfunded research and investigations into fracking, which involves driving
chemicals into the ground to fracture rock and release gas.
At the moment, fracking is temporarily banned in
Scotland but the Scottish Government is considering whether or not to ban it
for good. To help them make the right decision, we commissioned analysis into
fracking’s impact on:
– Workers’ health
– Tourism
– The whisky industry
Newspapers with coverage of 38 Degrees' fracking
analysisNewspapers including the Scotsman and the Herald ran stories on our
whisky analysis. And the Sunday Herald ran a piece on our report on workers’
health.
As well as that, we crowdfunded to pay the
investigative journalists at the Ferret to speak to people in Pennsylvania who
live with the reality of fracking.
Here are just some of the quotes from the people in
Pennsylvania who’ve been affected by fracking in their communities:
– “You’re going to deal with dirty air, dirty water.
These are not the things you want to do.”…
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