{"id":6430,"date":"2015-03-12T05:38:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2015-03-12T05:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:38:50","slug":"greenpeace-calls-on-information-commissioner-to-repair-transparency-travesty-and-publish-full-fracking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6430","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair \u2018Transparency Travesty\u2019 and Publish Full Fracking Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.uk\/2015\/03\/12\/greenpeace-calls-information-commissioner-repair-transparency-travesty-and-publish-full-fracking-report\" target=\"_blank\">Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair \u2018Transparency Travesty\u2019 and Publish Full Fracking Report<\/a><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Greenpeace has appealed to the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u2019s transparency watchdog over the government\u2019s repeated refusal to publish an unredacted version of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/economics-of-shale-gas\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The environmental\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">NGO<\/span>\u00a0has asked the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office to force the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to release the report in full.<\/p>\n<p>An unredacted version should be released before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-31153789\" target=\"_blank\">Lancashire authorities vote<\/a>\u00a0on whether or not to grant fracking firm Cuadrilla planning permission for two sites in the area, argues\u00a0Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Greenpeace says councillors should have access to all the available evidence when making a decision \u201cwhich is likely to have significant repercussions for communities in Lancashire and beyond.\u201d The appeal follows\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-31649989\" target=\"_blank\">similar calls from Lancashire County Council<\/a>, which voted unanimously for Defra to publish a full version of the\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Government\u00a0Cherry-Picking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Louise Hutchins, a Greenpeace\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>\u00a0energy campaigner, said: \u201cAuthorities in Lancashire and elsewhere in the country are about to make crucial decisions on whether to allow this controversial industry in their area. They should be given access to all the available evidence, not have it cherry-picked for them by the\u00a0government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace Calls on Information Commissioner to Repair \u2018Transparency Travesty\u2019 and Publish Full Fracking Report Greenpeace has appealed to the\u00a0UK\u2019s transparency watchdog over the government\u2019s repeated refusal to publish an unredacted version of its\u00a0Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts\u00a0report. The environmental\u00a0NGO\u00a0has asked the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office to force the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4115,4116,331,4113,387,4114,820],"class_list":["post-6430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-defra","tag-department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-report","tag-greenpeace","tag-transparency","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6431,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions\/6431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}