Herald Scotland: Green groups and communities unite to fight gas rush
A new coalition of 26 community and environmental groups is urging the Scottish Government to ban fracking for shale gas and drilling for underground coal-gas.
Campaigners want all unconventional gas production in Scotland stopped.
The groups, led by Concerned Communities of Falkirk (CCoF) and Friends Of The Earth Scotland, are demanding a moratorium on unconventional gas development in Scotland, saying risks to public health, staff and the environment are "impossible to regulate away."
They also want Scottish ministers to stop 22 wells to extract coalbed methane in Falkirk and Stirling. Some 2500 people objected to them and they were the subject of a public inquiry in March and April.