Have your say on fracking - CONSULTATION CLOSES 31 MAY

20 May 2017

Learn more about fracking and have your say in the Scottish Government's consultation, which closes at the end of May.  There's lots of information and useful links, including a direct shortcut to the consultation questions, on our Environment / Fracking page.

Many people are concerned about possible danger to health, especially through the contamination of water supplies, but so far there doesn't seem to be much hard evidence about this either way. There is a concise NHS summary of the state of the Scottish evidence, and a link provided by Professor Iain Stewart to a detailed American study.  

We are part of the rapidly expanding worldwide Transition Towns movement. The Black Isle is a peninsula of about 100 sq miles ENE of Inverness in Scotland, UK.