SEPTEMBER 10 UPDATE: This event has now been “postponed”.
Frack Free Surrey will be hosting a toxic teddy bears’ tea party in Croydon town centre on Saturday September 21. The event is planned as a way to let Croydon residents know that oil companies are looking to explore for oil and gas in Surrey, and the dangers that could bring.
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There will be a picnic with tea and biscuits, costumed characters, Frack Off singing, a showing of the anti-fracking documentary film Gaslands (at 11am and 2pm), some Morris dancing (at 1.30pm) and a “die-in” (12.30pm).
There will be an information stall and activists present to answer questions about what fracking is, and why it is such a bad idea.
The event begins at 10.30am and runs until 2pm on Croydon North End, outside Lush, which is supporting the event with practical help and financial assistance to Frack Free Surrey.
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The trouble with crying wolf too often is that if the beast finally appears, nobody will believe you no matter how loudly you wail.
There are no plans to prospect for oil in the Croydon area, as far as I know.
Oh yes, and Croydon hasn’t been in Surrey for nearly 50 years!
An exploration company has a licence to test to see if there are worthwhile reserves of oil or gas in Croydon, David.
We reported this here a month ago: http://insidecroydon.com/2013/08/05/frack-off-oil-company-has-licence-to-explore-in-croydon/
And as for the status of Surrey: you are correct in respect of local government. But “the ancient and geographic county of Surrey”, which runs all the way north to the Thames, is used by a number of organisations as a useful device for describing an area, and is readily understood by many.
There are organisations that believe the world was made is six days; that the earth is flat; and that our universe is the centre of the solar system. Fortunately, most of us don’t take any of them too seriously.
Having a license and breaking ground are very different things. At the moment, this is a non-story promoted by people with the time and inclination to worry about all the things that might happen.
Yes, David.
And as Edmund Burke said, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.