December 03 ,   2015

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War On Fracking Workshop at Upton Community Protection Camp

Our ‘War On Fracking’ direct action workshop at Upton Community Protection Camp took place on Saturday 5th December 2015 and participants included Dame Vivienne Westwood The Workshop gave beginners a chance to learn direct action skills at Upton Community Protection Camp, near...

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  September 12 ,   2015

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Vivienne Westwood and The Nanas declare War On Fracking

The government plans to fast-track fracking and take powers away from local communities but on Friday 11th September 2015 at David Cameron’s constituency home in Oxfordshire, The Nanas told the Prime Minister, “the oven gloves are coming off!” Vivienne Westwood and The Nanas from...

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  July 09 ,   2015

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What the Government Didn’t Want to Admit about Fracking

Last Friday, due to mounting political pressure, the government were forced to reverse a decision to censor 63 different passages of a controversial 12-page report on fracking’s potential impact on the rural economy. [1] In July 2014, following a Freedom of Information request from Greenpeace...

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  June 30 ,   2015

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A Victory for People Power! By Asad Rehman

Asad Rehman is Head of International Climate at Friends of the Earth (EWNI) and a Board member of Friends of the Earth International. Asad is from Burnley, Lancashire. This morning countless people will have woken up exhausted and elated from yesterdays amazing victory against Cuadrilla and...

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  June 30 ,   2015

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When Lancashire Went Frack Free

Ebony Ava Johnson is a founding member of the ‘Frack Free Lancashire’ campaign. She began as a concerned resident and mother.  We started the Frack Free Lancashire campaign just a year ago. In Lancashire alone, there are now over 40 groups united against fracking. This week, Frack Free...

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  June 26 ,   2015

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Pro-Fracking Fakes

Shady fracking lobbyists have denied that they had created a sham grassroots group to fake a pro-shale gas campaign, by roping in college students as supporters of the climate-destroying drilling method. Westbourne Communications, which has shale gas companies Centrica and Caudrilla as clients,...

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  June 25 ,   2015

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Lancashire County Council decision will be wide open to judicial review

A decision in favour of fracking would be the result of underhanded conduct by the Council and could be contested by judicial review. The behavior of Lancashire County Council and their attitude in terms of considering the submissions by esteemed academics with regard to the dangers fracking...

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  April 13 ,   2015

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Cuadrilla is already poisoning Britain

Cuadrilla threatens to poison the UK’s water, land and air through fracking. But already, its impact on British society, academia and public institutions can be described as corrosive. Cuadrilla also has a phenomenally destructive background. It is no wonder they have turned to a PR firm,...

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