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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
The coalition government has decided that more than half of Britain and two-thirds of England will be open to fracking despite compelling evidence the process may cause serious environmental, health and structural damage.
But now it seems insurers are starting to refuse to insure home owners against the affects of the damage – which can include flooding, earthquakes, land slips, sink holes and other serious problems.
Here’s the experience of one home owner who was recently refused coverage by two insurance companies from the possible affects of fracking:
Insurance shock for Wells home owners
The householder was refused coverage by the insurance companies despite no fracking licences yet being granted in the householders area. Simply the fact the area had been designated a suitable place for future exploration into shale gas extraction was enough.
So not only do we risk having our health, our environment and our homes damaged by fracking – looks like we won’t be getting any compensation for it either.
Does anyone in government – or the mainstream press – even care?
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Reblogged this on gingerblokeblog and commented:
And yet the government still pushes on with fracking in the UK without first accounting for any issues that may ensue for it’s citizens; as was the case when they decided to cut funding the department responsible for flood management programs, the Environment Agency.
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Reblogged this on Political Pip Spit or Swallow its up to You and commented:
As if this winters floods, sink holes and destruction isn’t bad enough. We should be supporting and protecting the land not endangering it.
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Reblogged this on kizzylee and commented:
this is horrific! words fail me, at what point do we decide to stand up against this? if anyone knows of any action against let me know i will support any action against this even if i have to roll up in my wheelchair to number ten to deliver a petition! something has to be done
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they now the pollution it causes they now thatinsurances will not pay out they now after the drilling over the firms will not clean up after themselves just has in the America going bust so whose going to pay for your house when it falls down not cams you bet they say its our fault for allowing it jeff3
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Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
In all the furore over Atos lately it has been easy to ignore other developments. Here’s a new wrinkle in the ‘Fracking’ controversy. Now that insurers are refusing to cover home owners against the effects of the process, will we see a stronger show of public opposition?
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
After the floods in Somerset and elsewhere comes this new blow: a couple in Wells have been refused insurance purely because they live in an area which may be used for fracking. And somehow, I cannot see the government being worried about this at all. Not when Cameron has donned a hard hat to visit a fracking plant in Lancashire, and Peter Lilley has interests in the petrochemical industry.
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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The Gentleman made the mistake when he specifically asked to be protected from Fracking. I am not supporting it at all, but the official line is; there is no link to damage from fracking, (Not believing the official line here either). Since there is not an official link then any damage that might occur from sink-holes, earthquakes and the like, all these types of damage, would be covered already.
It is not that the gentleman could not get this general cover, he ran into difficultly because he specifically requested to be protected from Fracking, which is an unnecessary request at this time. Fracking can cause all the damage listed but until the official line is reflected that way then the insurers have to pay out for earthquakes and sink-holes because they wouldn’t be officially linked to fracking. If and when the link is officially made, (hopefully not at the cost of someone’s life), then insurers have to change their policies after that fact, which would be very bad for this pro-fracking government if insurers were or were not paying out due to fracking damage. Maybe then the mainstream press would be interested?
It is very rare that I have anything critical to say about the articles and blogs that are posted within this community to inform people about the lies and deceit that happen within this illegitimate government, but this just feels a bit like its grasping at straws. It could be enough for someone to dismiss this entire blog and community for being a bunch of “frothing lefties” (I’ve been called this before), and lose their interest in anything else you might have to say, simply because this is a non-issue, which would be a shame because a lot of people out there do need informing. The local paper is basically reporting the gentleman’s mistake in asking for specific Fracking insurance and then reporting that in the end he got his insurance anyway. So yeah, a bit like grasping at straws.
I don’t claim that this is the right way to go about it from the insurers or the governments point of view, but just wanted to point out there really is not an issue of getting financially compensated if that should happen.
Though no amount of money can compensate the damage that can be done to the environment, homes, or lives.
Against Fracking.
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Reblogged this on HUMAN RIGHTS & THE SIEGE OF BRITAIN POLITICAL JOURNAL.
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I watched a DVD of a fiction story about towns threatened with Fracking.
The population owned the sub-soil rights to their town and therefore had to be paid a good portion of the potential profits from the Fracking of gas.
If the homes are rendered worthless by the insurance industry, then this ends Fracking in the UK as it becomes unprofitable.
It is the insurance industry who need to talk to the Fracking industry.
If the houses become worthless then they become zero Council Taxable.
Once the houses are lost, this is a substantial part of the wealth of the nation gone.
Not content with plunging the nation in a Weimar Republic depth of national debt, the politicians in personal greed, promote a means of gas extraction that plunges the nation into even further third world status, being suffered already by up to 13 million in the nation today.
This hits all with a roof over their head, however poor and however rich.
Meanwhile the many technologies that would make every city, town, business, industry, government building, all self sufficient in self generation of electricity are ignored.
See my blog at:
http://newpensionerparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/floods-hit-pensioners-2014.html
The Swans
http://www.theswansnewparty.org.uk
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The hysteria over fracking is beginning to sound like the hysteria over high voltage power line, mobile phone base stations and wind turbines.
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BUT, the same ”insurers” are insuring the beachfront houses and other properties; because sea-rising is a myth: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/sea-rising-or-not/
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Reblogged this on The Thoughts of a Ginge.
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It’s not hysteria. There are studies that have linked fracking with earthquakes and contamination of water. It has been known for a while that mining and injecting high pressure fluids into the ground causes earthquakes. This has been scientificaly proven. New Ollerton is at present experiencing a series of quakes due to coal mining. Quakes caused by mining have caused fatalities.
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With a good medical insurance plan you can protect your family in case of expenses towards day care surgery, critical illness, hospitalization and medical emergencies charges.
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