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Tuesday 29 July 2014

Fracking Snowballs...

Just three years ago, I recall a handful of of groups in the UK opposing the development of unconventional energy like shale gas through fracking... now though we have snowballed into something quite amazing and growing at a rate of two or more a week. This from a Facebook link by Britain & Ireland Frack Free - BIFF:
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@June 2014 - 212 Groups and counting, new ones being added daily.

BIFF!  ;o)

Frack Off (UK):

Fracking Hell (UK) is a busy Fb discussion Group:

Anti-fracking Network Fb Group:

Fracking Nightmare Fb Group:

Frack Free Families Fb Group:

Druids Against Fracking Fb Group:

The Warrior's Call - pagans united against fracking

No Fracking UK Fb Page:

Conservatives Against Fracking Fb Group

Expats support Anti-Fracking in the UK Fb Group:

Gardeners Against Fracking Forever. G.A.F.F. Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1391040354480213/?fref=ts



Businesses Against Fracking Website:
http://www.businessesagainstfrackingey.co.uk/




ENGLAND


YORKSHIRE:

FRACK FREE HULL & HOLDERNESS Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/589204771172454/

The Battle for Crawberry Hill Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/754977214555224/?fref=ts

Hull & East Yorkshire Against Fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/468769453232268/

East Yorkshire Frack Free Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1385178025060102/

Crawberry Hill Community Protection Camp Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/crawberryhillcamp?fref=ts


Frack Free (S. Yorks)

Frack Free North Yorkshire
 Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frack-Free-North-Yorkshire/
West Yorkshire is NOT for Shale Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/622267714536241/
Keep your fracking hands off Calderdale (West Yorks) Fb Group:

Frack Free York - Our Clean Energy Future Fb Group:

Frack Free Harrogate and Knaresborough Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FrackFreeHarrogateAndKnaresborough/?fref=ts

Frack Free Leeds Fb Page:

Frack Free Scarborough Fb Group:

Frack Free Hebden Bridge Fb Page:

Frack Free Doncaster Fb Page:


LANCASHIRE:

REAF - Ribble Estuary Against Fracking

RAFF - Residents Against Fylde Fracking

Frack Free Fylde Website:

Frack Free Lancashire Fb Page:

Frack Free Blackpool Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/FrackFreeBlackpool


Keep East Lancashire Frack Free KELFF Fb Group:

Frack Free Pendle Fb Page:

Bowland Fracking Forum Fb Group:

Refracktion Website:

Frack Off Rossendale Fb Page:

Garstang Against Fracking Fb Page:

Longridge Against Fracking Fb Page:

Frack Free Burnley Fb Page:

Lancaster Against Fracking Fb Group:

Lancaster Fights Fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/624416087591312/

Bury Against Fracking Fb Group:

Fleetwood Folk Say No Fracking (FFS No Fracking) Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FFSNoFracking/

Hyndburn anti fracking group Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1499290420295440/


Ramsbottom Against fracking Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FFSNoFracking/?fref=ts

Preston New Road (Westby with Plumpton) Against Fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/620105231429689/

TUFF Thornton Unites Against Fylde Fracking: Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/543672932409674/



GREATER MANCHESTER:

Daveyhulme and Trafford Frack Free Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/257625044416824/

Daveyhulme Community Protection Camp Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1422411784706665/

Barton Moss Community Protection Camp Fb Page:

Say No to Fracking on Barton Moss Fb Group:

Barton Moss and Beyond Fb Group:

Frack Free Greater Manchester Website:

Frack Free Salford & Manchester Fb Page:

IGas Barton Moss Drilling Site Fb Page:

Bolton Against Fracking Fb Page:

Frack Free Chorlton Fb Page:

Keep the Fracking Hell out of Rochdale Fb Group:

Frack Free Wigan, Leigh and Makerfield Fb Group:

Irlam and Cadishead Frack Free Fb Group:

Barton Moss Community Protection Camp Wishlist Fb Page:

Frack Free Stockport Fb Page:

Frack Free Tameside

Frack Free Walkden Website:
http://www.frackfreewalkden.co.uk/

Frack Free Levenshulme Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/218243071696995/


SUSSEX:

Frack Free Sussex  Fb Page:

Keep Kirdford and Wisborough ‘Green'.  No Drilling Fb Page:

Frack Free Balcombe Website:

Balcombe and beyond Fb Group:

Gas Drilling in Balcombe Website:

Worthing Against Fracking Fb Group:


Chichester Anti-fracking Forum Fb Group:

Frack Free Horsham and District Fb Group:

Horsham Against Fracking Fb Page:

Brighton Action Against Fracking Fb Page:

Gasfield Free Sussex Fb Page:

Frack Free FRow (Forest Row) Fb Page:

Frack Free Billingshurst Fb Page:

Frack Free Arun Fb Page:

Frack Free Markwells Wood (near Havant - Hampshire border) Fb Group:

SEER - Sussex Extreme Energy Resistance:

Wealden Against Fracking Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/WealdenAgainstFracking

Frack Free Sussex Food Alliance Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/sussexfrackfreefoodalliance

Frack Free Mayfield and Five Ashes Website:
http://www.frackfreemayfieldandfiveashes.org/index.html

Henfield debates Fracking Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/HenfieldDebatesFracking?fref=ts

Hastings & Rother says NO to fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/508563832606275/


NOTTINGHAMSHIRE:

Frack Free Nottinghamshire

Bassetlaw Against Fracking Fb Group:

Daneshill Community Protection Camp Website:


SOMERSET:

Frack Free Somerset Website:

Get the Frack out of The Mendips Fb Page:

Gas Field Free Mendip

Frack Free Chew Valley (Somerset) Fb Page:

FAB - Fracking Awareness Backwell (Somerset) Fb Page:

Frack Free Bristol Fb Page:

Frack Free Yeovil and surrounding areas Fb Page:

Bruton Gasfield Free Community Fb Page:


DORSET:

Frack Free Dorset

Protect Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck Website:

Protect our Purbecks  Fb Group:


KENT:
No Fracking in East Kent Fb Page:

No Fracking in Shepherdswell Fb Page:

Frack Free Darenth Valley Fb Page:

Frack Free Sandwich Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/NoFrackinSandwich




CHESHIRE AND NORTH WALES:

Frack Free Farndon (West Cheshire and Chester) Fb Group:

Frack Free Upton (Chester) Fb Group:

Frack Free East Cheshire Fb Page:

Frack Free Dee Fb Group:

Frack Free Deeside Fb Page:

Anti Fracking Warrington Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/738142569532261/

Frack Free Mickle Trafford (Chester) Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/544352145679616/

Frack Free Malpas Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/FrackFreeMalpas#

Congleton and Macclesfield Against Fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/552791938149584/

I'm Against Fracking at Ince Marshes Fb Group:

Cheshire and Wirral Action on Fracking - CAWAF  Fb Page:





OTHER ENGLISH REGIONS / COUNTIES: (and Welsh/Scots Borders)

Frack Off London Fb Page:

Frack Free North West Fb Page:

FRACK OFF! North West against fracking Fb Group:

The Entire North of England Unite Against Fracking Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/Northernersagainstfracking

No Fracking in Scotland and the North of England Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1377677679123661/?fref=ts

North East Extreme Energy Awareness Fb Group:

Sussex hampshire awareness fracking trust (ed) S.H.A.F.T. (ed) Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/397725080332420/

Say no to fracking Shrewsbury,Oswestry,Wrexham and Chester Fb Page: 

Shropshire Anti-Fracking - Expect Resistance (SAFER) - Frack Off! Fb Group:

Frack Free Derbyshire Fb Page:

Frack Free Glossop Fb Page:

Frack Free Lincolnshire Fb Group:

Frack Free Tyne & Wear  Fb Group (Closed Group - ask to join).

Frack Free Cleveland Fb Group (Closed)

No3Nooks Gas (Staffordshire) Fb Page:

Tamworth Against Fracking (Staffordshire) Fb Page:

Ban Fracking in Herefordshire Fb Page:

Gasfield Free Birmingham Fb Page:

Gas Free Stoke Fb Group:

Gasfield Free Leamington Fb Page:

Frack Free East Anglia Fb Group:

Oxon Against Fracking Fb Page:

Frack Free Surrey Fb Page:


Solent Fracking Awareness (Hampshire) Fb Group:

Southampton Fracking Awareness Fb Group:

Frack Free Devon Fb Group:

KWIFF - Keep Wiltshire Frack Free Fb Group:

Frack Free Five Valleys (Gloucestershire) Fb Page:

Frack Free East Anglia Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/FrackFreeEastAnglia

Gasfield Free Rugby Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AgainstFracking



Say No to Fracking in North Shropshire Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/256822917857512/

Frack Free Gainsborough  Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1431575790413304/

Frack Free Wantage and Grove Oxfordshire

Fb Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frack-Free-Wantage-and-Grove-Oxfordshire/1402710456682555?fref=ts


Frack Free Leicestershire Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/315102698646454/





WALES 

Frack Free Wales:

Anti-fracking West and Mid-Wales Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Antifrackwestmidwales

Say No to Fracking in South Wales Fb Page:

N.E. Wales Anti-Fracking Network Fb Page:

Frack Off Llanelli Fb Group:

The Vale says NO! (Glamorgan) Fb Page:

Frack Free Newport Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/frackfreenewport

Frack (UCG) Free Swansea Fb Group:

S.A.F.E. Swansea Against Fracked Energy FB Page:

Llantrithyd Villagers Against FrackingFb Page: https://www.facebook.com/VillagersAgainstDrilling
Website: http://www.llantrithyd.com/

Frack Free Llantrisant
Website: frackfreellantrisant.wordpress.com
Keep your Fracking hands off Neath Port Talbot Fb Group:

Cardiff Against Fracking Everywhere CAFE Fb Page:



IRELAND

NO FRACKING IRELAND FB Group (Avoid the FB Page by the same name).

Fracking Free Ireland Website:

North West Network Against Fracking (Ireland)  Fb Page:

No Fracking Northern Ireland FB Page:

Ban Fracking Northern Ireland Twitter:
@BANfrackingNI


Ballinlea Residents Group / Protect our North Coast (Antrim) Website:
http://www.protectournorthcoast.com/

Rathlin Bay Residents Say no to Fracking (Antrim) Website:
http://notofracking.com/

No Fracking Sligo Fb Page:

No Fracking Leitrim FB Group:

No Fracking Tyrone FB Group:

Stop Fracking Fermanagh Fb Page:

Fermanagh Fracking Awareness Network (FFAN) Website:

Carrick Against Fracking Fb Page:

Belfast not for $hale Website:

Frack Free Kerry Fb Page:

Fracking Fee Clare Fb Page:

Ballymoney Against Fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/458637560938763/?fref=ts

Ballymoney - counsel against Fracking Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/287581601423335/?fref=ts


SCOTLAND :

Frack Off Scotland FB Page:

Frack Off Scotland FB Group

Frack Free Forth Valley Fb Page:

FAUG - Forth valley Against Unconventional Gas

Frack Off Glasgow Fb Group:

Frack Off Peeblesshire Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/521523084596952/

Fracking Ban Scotland Fb Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/247089685323502/

No to fracking in Scotland  Fb Page:
https://www.facebook.com/NoToFrackingInScotland

UCG = UNDERGROUND COAL GASIFICATION (Fracking's evil Twin).







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