Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions “My children started getting sick,” says Lois Bower-Bjornson, a campaigner at the Clean Air Council in Washington County, Pennsylvania. “My oldest son had rashes all over his body. His ears, his eyelids, everywhere. My youngest had terrible nosebleeds, it was so bad that he became anaemic and would almost pass out. He would wake up bleeding.” Continue reading...

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions

“My children started getting sick,” says Lois Bower-Bjornson, a campaigner at the Clean Air Council in Washington County, Pennsylvania. “My oldest son had rashes all over his body. His ears, his eyelids, everywhere. My youngest had terrible nosebleeds, it was so bad that he became anaemic and would almost pass out. He would wake up bleeding.” Bower-Bjornson blames her children’s health problems on the 36 fracking wells that surround her property in the greater Appalachian region of the US. She also places some of the responsibility on Ineos, a British company privately owned by British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the co-owner of Premier League football club Manchester United. New analysis has revealed that Ineos is spearheading growth in the US fracked ethane trade to produce plastic that is used in consumer items in Europe, with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions. Fracking has been banned across much of Europe due to its environmental impacts and links to seismic activity but European countries can still purchase fracked gas from elsewhere. Tensions have risen recently in Europe over a controversial Ineos development in Belgium, which will use fracked gas from the US. The project has received financial backing from the British government...