Anti-fracking movement

An anti-fracking movement has emerged both internationally, with involvement of international environmental organizations and nation states such as France, and locally in affected areas such as Balcombe in Sussex^[1] and Pungești in Romania.

Europe

UK

The Frack Off campaign is a grassroots direct action against unconventional gas and oil extraction.

North America

Environmental concerns about fracking began to take hold in the United States when Josh Fox released Gasland in 2010, a documentary on the social and environmental impacts of fracking.

Actor Mark Ruffalo, who lives in New York, became a major opponent to fracking. Ruffalo laid out his full case against fracking in a piece co-authored with Phil Radford on CNN.com, where he argued solar and wind are here now, and using fracked natural gas instead of cleaner sources of energy will result in more faucets on fire, methane leaks that cause global warming, groundwater contamination, and cancer causing chemicals in communities.^[2] In New York, more than 180 artists are recognised as members of Artists Against Fracking, a group that opposes fracking in the Marcellus shale.^[3]

In film

• Split Estate (2009)
• Gasland (2010)
• Gasland: Part II (2013)
• The Sky is Pink (2013)
• Frack Off (UK)
• Frackman (Australia - 2015)

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