Mark Ruffalo: Fracking in Lancashire against locals' wishes would be a terrible injustice

Mark Ruffalo says that David Cameron should respect the wishes of people in Lancashire and not overturn the county council's rejection of fracking bids

This weekend I have the pleasure and honor of coming to London for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards for Spotlight, a film honoring the victims of a terrible injustice and celebrating exceptional journalism that brought the story to light.

I'm also taking this opportunity to lend my voice to residents of Lancashire who are fighting to prevent another kind of injustice, drilling and fracking in their neighbourhoods. Fracking is an extreme form of oil and gas extraction that leads to water contamination, air pollution, earthquakes, illness, exacerbates climate change, and turns communities upside down.