Fracking site shut down in Taranaki (with our help?)

Todd Energy have shut down one of their large multi-welled fracking sites in Taranaki. After nearly two years of construction, drilling, fracking and flaring at the Mangahewa-E site in Taranaki, they have closed it down and walked away.

‘Mothballed’ is how Todd Energy representatives put it at a community information meeting in Tikorangi this week. Todd have been having a lot of problems getting gas out of the Mangahewa field sometimes producing saline fluid and little else and while Todd Energy have reported wanting to reduce the need for Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking), they have been ramping it up. Just this year, Todd have notified residents in Tikorangi of 24 separate fracking procedures and that's just at one well pad. (Mangahewa-C)

Over the same period, Frack Free Kapiti have been calling on the Todd family to stop fracking New Zealand. We have erected a large notice near the Todd’s beach property asking the public to ‘Tell the Todd’s to Stop Fracking New Zealand’.

Frack Free Kapiti are pleased that one of the fracking sites has been closed down and we think the Todd family are getting the message that kiwis know fracking is not good for our environment, for our communities, or for our future.

Frack Free Kapiti will continue to encourage citizens to let the Todds know we want them to close down all their fracking activities and move to the development of clean and renewable energy.

Fracked gas is not a clean transition fuel. Fracked gas is as dirty as coal and possibly even more so, according to experts at Cornell University in the US. Coal, oil and gas are fossil fuels and we must move away from them and onto clean energy without delay.

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