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Part of this short movie includes a small snatch of the 'Jeremy Vine Show' BBC Radio 2, discussing fracking in the United Kingdom. In a short interview Eve Mc Namara from R.E.A.F puts across her objections to the fracturing that is now taking place within striking distance of where she lives.

The experience of fracking the United States clearly shows that it causes a huge range of local environmental issues, in addition to its severe effects on the climate system.

1. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found benzene contamination in groundwater near fracked wells

2. A Duke University study has also found methane contamination of groundwater

3. Dr Paul Hetzler a ex-employee of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation has been recently quoted as saying 'Hydraulic fracturing will contaminate New York's aquifers. If you were looking for a way to poison the drinking water supply, here in the north-east you couldn't find a more chillingly effective and thorough method of doing so than with hydraulic fracturing.'

4. This not unexpected since a Schlumberger study shows that most wells will eventually start leaking even without fracking.

5. Shale Gas brings many more wells and intensive fracking, where a 10-well frac-pad is equivalent to setting off a 4.4 kiloton nuclear bomb underground

6. Is it any wonder that fracking has been linked to a string of magnitude 4 and greater earthquakes in the US over the last year!

7. Finally due to the very minimal onshore petroleum exploration that has happened in the UK there is almost no regulation at all, unlike some US states with long experience of petroleum exploration where they at least they have some limitations on drilling near houses and water sources etc.

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