Concerned Health Professionals UK

Makes perfect sense.

I remember when our surgery fax number was one digit different from the Co-op butcher down the road. He was very helpful and walked round with the misdirected messages as soon as he discovered he was not personally responsible for the activities suggested in them.

Inspections and pollution tests drop as Environment Agency sheds thousands of staff unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/12/08/env… via @UE EA no longer do any monitoring of fracking sites but will relay on industry to send in the paperwork. Not as promised. 'All over them like a rash' we were told

We can all help by encouraging divestment from fossil fuels. Where do your councils invest, your bank, pensions, your Royal College even? Quite apart from speeding the demise of fossil fuels it may make good financial sense.

Looking forward to working with @Medact on divestment from fossil fuels and on gathering support from health professionals to stop fracking being rolled out across the UK. Please visit CHPUK.co.uk and show support by adding your name to the letter.

Read our letter to government here bit.ly/2AwiZdW

Thank you @CMA_Docs for recognizing importance of #climateaction for health by cohosting @LancetCountdown brief & commiting to #fossilfuel #divestment - very proud to be a CMA member! #LancetClimate18 @brianbrodieCMA @drgigiosler @smithtTim @DocSandyB @c_pdesrosiers @jblackmerMD

Opening up another source of fossil fuel in UK is not clever, especially one that impacts on human and environmental health and well-being. #fracking has no place in our progress towards a zero-carbon future.

Please add CHPUK to the plea to Government to stop exploiting novel sources of carbon based fuel and ignoring the health impacts to the local communities and to the world in general. We dont have long to mend our ways and cannot afford to roll out fracking in the UK.

Of all the fossil fuel sources tar sands and fracking are among the worst for Climate Breakdown and with the worst economics also. We cannot exploit the known sources of carbon energy and there is no place for chasing hard to get fossil fuels.

Study in @TheLancet warns of cascading health risks from #climatechange nyti.ms/2DQFr4M #climatejustice #donoharm @RCGP @FPH

The problem is that there is no plan to measure public health prior to #fracking, nor to monitor during pad development, drilling, testing then production. No idea about the infrastructure that will be rolled out. No looking, no analysis, no answers. Same everywhere else.

There has never been a full Health Impact Assessment carried out on #fracking to look for possible risks and possible impacts then analyse the results. Strange really. As if they dont want us to know. And UK Gov does not want a defined distance from the wellpad to your home.

If it is recognised that their are harms to human health from #fracking and we are about to roll it out across the UK, what should or health regulator do? To conduct the experiment 'is fracking safe' you would need to find the baseline before fracking, then measure for impacts .

If you are a UK health professional with concerns about fracking and other extreme energy processes please find our website and sign to support. CHPUK.co.uk

Watch this space for a series of well researched reports on the harms of fracking to human health. If you do your own reading and check the 'grey literature' from Gov and Industry you may reach the conclusion that I did - 'we cannot say fracking is safe so we should not do it.'

Are we alone in being concerned about the health impacts from fracking? We have only had a small handful of small test fracks in the UK and they have resulted in seismic activity and damage to a well bore, potentially leading to loss of integrity - leaking to you and I.