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Old Story, New Threat: Fracking and the Global Land Grab

Old Story, New Threat: Fracking and the Global Land Grab

Full Title:  Old Story, New Threat: Fracking and the Global Land Grab
Author(s): Jennifer Franco, Ana Maria Rey Martinez, Timothé Feodoroff
Publisher(s):  TNI Agrarian Justice Program
Publication Date: January 1, 2013
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Description (excerpt):

This paper explains what is fracking, why and where it is happening today, who is promoting it and how; providing a map of the global boom of fracking, its web of actors as well as the state of popular resistance. Promoted as a more sustainable energy source than other fossil fuels, fracking is spreading worldwide through a state-capital alliance that is capturing control of huge land and water resources at the expense of ordinary people. Fracking is an expression of the water and land grabbing agenda already underpinning expanding corporate takeover of natural resources. In addition to further intensifying and spreading fossil fuel extraction-related environmental destruction, fracking is breathing new life into the corporate oil industry, which is already a serious impediment to democratic control of resources and resource management and a key actor behind accelerating climate change. For all these reasons, fracking must be stopped.

 

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