A British environmental advocacy group said more than 150,000 signatures were added to a petition sent to the government against hydraulic fracturing plans. “Fracking poses risks to people and the environment, and politicians in Westminster shouldn’t force this risky technology on any community,” campaigners Hannah Martin of Greenpeace and Rose Dickinson of Friends of the Earth said in a joint statement. In May, the British Geological Survey started working with its university counterparts to set a baseline for water and air quality associated with shale natural gas reserves in North Yorkshire. Third Energy U.K. Gas Ltd. submitted an application last year to use hydraulic fracturing, known also as fracking, at one well site there. BGS already started environmental surveys in Lancashire, where shale pioneer […]