Fracking and the implications for Dorset residents

5 July 2014

Sunday 13th July at 2pm, Wareham Corn Exchange, Town Hall, East Street, Wareham BH20 4NS

You are invited to attend an illustrated talk about fracking and alternatives, and the implications for Dorset residents.

Charles Miller, an expert with 25 years in the oil industry and involvement in these issues, will take us through aspects of the fracking process and its implications for the environment, for local habitats and agriculture and for human communities.

The talk will reveal the problems of fracking - much underplayed by commercial interests promoting it. Disadvantages include the scale and extent of the underground fracking wells; the toxic by-products and the health effects; the lack of safeguards for drinking water and waste disposal; the major impact on water tables; and the often low level of extraction achieved.

Despite these pitfalls, the government has already licensed fracking here in Dorset and, with your money, are increasing incentives for councils to permit fracking. Moreover, no comprehensive or credible regulatory framework covering hydraulic fracturing has yet been developed or put in place in this country.

The talk includes sustainable energy technologies that are well underway in neighbouring countries, and are already producing reliable low-cost energy for their citizens. There is also a growing movement here in the UK towards citizen co-operatives being formed to produce their own low-cost electrical and winter-heating energy in combination with local farms and forestry. Since users are stakeholders in their own energy co-op, this ensures that the self-serving profiteering of large energy companies faces permanently low-cost competition from sustainable sources - a win-win situation all round!

As we can expect world oil production to fall more rapidly from next year and lead to continuously escalating price rises, the need to move from short-term fossil fuels to sustainable, renewable, long-term sources is imperative.

Please come along and hear about this interesting topical issue from an expert in the field.

It is important to arrive early and park in the Streche Road car park or in surrounding streets going westward (towards Dorchester) - and not in the centre of the town. The Wareham Carnival is processing through the town later in the afternoon, so parking will become restricted. Where possible, car-sharing would be advisable, or use the South West Travelines website to plan how to get to the meeting by public transport.

 






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