What can I do about it? Get informed: Brockham Oil Watch How will industrial BOW believes that the best way to avoid these website: brockhamoilwatch.org risks is to apply the precautionary principle. Drill or Drop news: drillordrop.com The risks of industrial scale oil extraction are too oil extraction in high, so it should not go ahead. Get involved! What skills can you offer? Join BOW and help stop industrial oil expansion. Phone: 07943 222 282, Brockham affect Email: [email protected]

Help us monitor the site Donate: send a cheque to: Brockham Oil Watch, me? Regulators are overstretched so site visits are in - 6 Tynedale Rd, Strood Green, Betchworth, frequent. The eyes and ears of local people are Surrey, RH3 7HX. important to help monitor the situation. Or online: brockhamoilwatch.org/donate These activities are permitted only during these hours ( except for emergencies ). Talk about it, write about it! Tell neighbours, local officials, the media and politicians your concerns. Work and lighting Mole Valley MP: 07:30 - 18:00 Monday to Friday. Sir Paul Beresford: 86 South Street, 08:00 - 13:00 hours on Saturdays. Dorking,Surrey, RH4 2EW. No working on Sundays, Bank Holidays, Phone: 01306 883312 Phone: 020 7219 5018 Public Holidays. Email: [email protected] HGV movements Councillors: County Council: Councillor Helyn Clack. Remember the nodding donkeys 07:00 - 08:00, 09:00 - 15:30, and 18:00 - 19:00 Phone: 01293 862221 on Monday to Friday. 08:00 - 13:00 on Saturday. Email: [email protected] in Brockham that pumped out Breaches to these conditions should be reported to District Council: Councillor Simon Budd, a trickle of oil for years? Surrey County Council Enforcement officer, Ian Gray. Phone: 07905 811990 . Email: [email protected] Phone: 020 8541 9423 Cllr John Muggeridge. Phone: 07768 867809. They are gone and industrial Email: [email protected] The Dorking Advertiser . Regent House, scale oil extraction in Notify your local councillors too. 1-3 Queensway, Redhill, RH1 1QT Email: [email protected] Brockham is underway. Environmental Incident If you smell gas, see oily sheen on water in ditches , Host a meeting in your community. Oil Company Angus Energy or anything else that might be related to oil operations, call the Environment Agency’s freephone 24-hour BOW needs people to organise meetings and can already has planning approval Incident Hotline: 0800 80 70 60 supply informed speakers to give presentations. and the green light from If your event can include a fundraising element Please copy BOW so we can log incidents too. (drinks, cake, raffle), then even better. government regulators. Include date, time and place with photos if possible. What will it be like living next How will my air be affected? Could my house be damaged? to an industrial oilfield? Gas flaring and heavy plant use will release ben - Twenty three earthquakes have shaken the zene, nitrogen oxides, particulates and other gases. Newdigate area since 2018. The biggest was According to developers Angus Energy, the 3.4 on the Richter scale. Local residents have project will aim to extract 300 barrels of oil per These poisons are well established to cause complained about property damage. Experts day. This is a tenfold increase compared with the illnesses. have indicated the unusually rapid escalation of nodding donkeys. earthquakes, might be due to oil exploration. Tanker traffic to transport oil will increase They have called for a moratorium on all activity. tenfold, so too will air pollution as projected gas How could my water The link between earthquakes and hydrocarbon production skyrockets to 5,664 cubic meters exploration is well established. per day. Risk of groundwater pollution will in - be affected? crease if permission is given to pump powerful The oil well will pass through underground fresh Since starting fracking at its Lancashire site in chemicals underground. water aquifers. The walls of the well tube are October 2018, Cuadrilla has triggered a swarm of earthquakes causing it to shut down Earthquakes are an associated hazard proven to made of steel and concrete. operations on several occasions. damage property and devalue house prices . If this ruptures, oil and toxic extraction chemicals could spill into the surrounding groundwater. In Holland four hundred thousand people have been affected by over a thousand earthquakes How far am I from the oilfield? There is also a risk of gas seeping through linked to gas extraction, causing widespread natural fractures to the aquifers. Brockam, Betchworth, Punchbowl Lane, property damage. Having paid out £8 billion Holmwood Park estate and Chart Downs, are all Surface spills can also pollute local streams. compensation, the Dutch Government has now stopped this destructive business. within one mile of the site. BOW has put in place air and water monitoring to Other areas such as South Holmwood are on the to monitor extraction-related pollutants. tanker route. There is no guarantee of compensation in the UK. Will I be affected by the UK regulators the OGA, say that it is rare for earthquakes less than Richter level 4.0 to affect tenfold increase in heavy property. Experiences in Holland contradict this, trucks? raising questions about the accuracy of UK monitoring thresholds. Heavy truck movements such as tankers are to escalate tenfold compared with the days of the nodding donkeys, Angus have predicted. Will my house lose value? The route is narrow, winding and dangerous, “People have lost houses that were passed on raising concerns that accidents will increase. from generation to generation and were part of Congestion, noise and pollution from truck the landscape.” Stuart Haszeldine, a Geologist movements will escalate sharply, burdening with Edinburgh University told Channel 4 News the already decaying country roads and about the situation in Holland. shattering rural tranquillity. The Dutch disaster saw house prices plummet. The impact on quality of life and wildlife has not One family dropped their asking price by 50% even been considered, as no traffic management and still could not sell. Offered paltry compensation, plan or Environmental Impact Assessment has they were trapped in their damaged house, been required by the authorities. “where they watched cracks grow up the walls.” (The Guardian, 10/10/15).