Submitted on Wednesday 22nd July 2015
Rejected on Thursday 23rd July 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban fracking in the UK
Risks
Contaminates groundwater. Methane pollution and impact on climate change. Air pollution. Exposure to toxic chemicals
Blowouts due to gas explosion. Waste disposal. Large volume water use in water-deficient regions. Fracking-induced earthquakes. Workplace safety. Infrastructure degradation
Wyoming, famous for its crisp mountain air and breathtaking, far-as-the-eye-can-see vistas, is looking a lot like smoggy Los Angeles these days because of a boom in natural gas drilling.
Folks who live near the gas fields in the western part of this outdoorsy state are complaining of watery eyes, shortness of breath and bloody noses because of ozone levels that have exceeded what people in L.A. and other major cities wheeze through on their worst pollution days.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104617
You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.
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