The goal of this toolkit is to provide legal arguments to activists in the European Union (EU) against the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons (e.g., shale gas/oil, tight gas/oil, coal-bed methane) by referring to relevant articles of existing and binding EU law.
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The private and secretive chemical company Ineos has been leading the charge the environmentally destructive method of fracking to the United Kingdom (UK) and mainland Europe. It’s a return to the past. Find out what we need to do.
America’s oil and gas rush is now coming to Europe, polluting both sides of the pond, contributing to climate change and threatening coastal wildlife.
Over the past decade, the U.S. fossil fuel industry has surged by employing new techniques and technologies that combine horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) to extract oil and gas from shale and other underground rock formations. Fracking causes many negative public health and environmental impacts and injects large quantities of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure to release oil or gas tightly held in rock layers.
European countries must protect the environment and public health and reject America’s headlong rush to fracking and cracking pollution and environmental damage.
La industria española del porcino supone el 37 por ciento del total de la producción ganadera, y el 14 por ciento de la producción agraria total, generando alrededor de 6 millones de euros en 2014.
In Spain, the pork industry accounts for 37 per cent of total livestock production and for 14 per cent of total agricultural production, generating some €6 million in revenue in 2014.
The oil and gas industry likes to promote fracking as a boon to farmers and rural communities, but the dream often turns into a nightmare.
Tetracycline. Penicillin. Amoxicillin. Antibiotics are life-saving tools in our medicine chest, but we all have good reason to worry that we’re losing them. Bacteria that make us sick are adapting to resist even our best drugs, so when we get sick it’s harder to find a medicine to help us get well. Medical authorities call […]
This report clearly outlines the problems with the European Commission’s soft-touch approach to the incipient fracking industry in Europe.
Food & Water Europe exposes the enormous influence that corporate drug companies play in the peer-reviewed science surrounding risky veterinary drug
“We first made the case for a ban on fracking in 2011, but this report shows that there is an urgent case for a ban. The evidence is in, and it is clear and overwhelming. Fracking is inherently unsafe, cannot be regulated and should be banned. Instead, we should transition aggressively to a renewable and efficient energy system.” — Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Europe