Image credit: Push Europe By guest contributor Lucy Patterson Last week, I was in Balcombe, a small village in the UK on the frontline of a devastating dirty energy project. I stood […]
Balcombe – leading Britain’s wake-up call
On surfing and fracking
Image source: The Daily Telegraph By guest contributor Charlotte Webster I’m just back from a week surfing in Portugal. It was glorious, as always. Having grown up by the sea I learned […]
Editorial: Is Osborne inadvertently re-energising the UK’s environmental movement?
Anti fracking protesters in Balcombe. When George Osborne recently unveiled the world’s most generous tax breaks for shale gas extraction in the UK, in a desperate effort to kick start the shale […]
Balcombe – a week of protests
By Anders Lorenzen It’s exactly a week ago since what many media outlets have dubbed ‘The Battle of Balcombe’ commenced and also a week ago since we first covered the anti fracking […]
Live blog: Cuadrilla starts Balcombe operations
The drill has been mounted at site in Balcombe. Photo credit: Benjamin Wigan Lucas By Anders LorenzenThe picturesque village of Balcombe in Sussex just 50 kilometres south of London are today gearing […]
