Meetings, decisions, consultation deadlines and other key dates coming up in the next month about fracking and onshore oil and gas. Updated throughout the month.
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Thursday 1st October 2015
Frack Free Isle meeting on shale gas extraction, main speaker Gayzer Frackman of Frack Free Lancashire, 7pm, Wesley Memorial Church Hall, High Street, Epworth Details
Meeting on community health arranged by Third Energy, Kirby Misperton Village Hall, 1-5pm drop-in questions, 6.30pm-8.30pm presentation by Dr Andrew Buroni, of the international consultancy RPS Group
Decision on planning application expected about 3pm for 5MW solar farm by community energy project, Repower Balcombe, formed following anti-fracking protests in the West Sussex village Details
Friday 2nd October 2015
Some of the people convicted following protests outside the IGas site at Barton Moss in Salford are appealing, 10am, Manchester Magistrates Court M60 1PR Details
Saturday 3rd October 2015
Anti-fracking public meeting organised by Louise Haigh, MP for Sheffield Heeley, 5.30pm-7.30pm, Heeley Institute, 147 Gleadless Road, Gleadless, Sheffield S2 3AF Details
Sunday 4th October 2015
No to Austerity – No to Fracking Hell: March at Conservative Party Conference, 11am, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, The Crescent M5 4WU Details
Frack Off Our Forest and Hands Off Our Forest at Forest Food Showcase food and drink festival, 10am-5pm, grounds of Speech House Hotel, Speech House Road, Nr Coleford, Gloucestershire GL16 7EL For details see Diary
March to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester by anti-fracking groups and climate change campaigners, starting at 11am, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, The Crescent M5 4WU press release and details
Tuesday 6th October 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Saline Leisure Centre Details
Wednesday 7th October
Tell the Tories to unfrack the North: anti-fracking demonstration during David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party conference, 12 noon-2pm, central Manchester Details
Thursday 8th October 2015
Ryedale District council debate on a moratorium on fracking, 6.30pm, Council Chamber, Ryedale House, Malton YO17 1SA
Trafford Council’s development control committee decides on IGas application for coal bed methane exploration, testing and production at site next to the Davyhulme water treatment works. Planning officers have recommended approval. Meeting starts at 6.30pm, Committee Suite, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, Manchester M32 0TH Details
Fracking: for whom, at what cost, discussion with John Ashton, former climate ambassador, organised by Friends of the Earth Scotland, 7.30pm-9pm, Edinburgh, venue to be confirmed Details
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Tullibody Civic Centre Details
Public meeting organised by Bassetlaw Against Fracking and screening of Shattered Ground, 7.15pm, Shireoaks Village Hall, Shireoaks Road, Shireoaks, Worksop S818LX Details
IGas community exhibition, 3pm-8pm, Chester Rugby Union Football Club, Hare Lane, Littleton, Chester CH3 7DB Details
Frack Free Dee Peaceful demonstration outside IGas presentation, 4pm-7pm, opposite Barnhouse Veterinary Surgery, Tarvin Road, Littleton Chester CH3 7DD Details
Carwyn Connect First Minister Carwyn Jones tours all 22 local authorities in Wales to hear what matters to communities. Free event but entry by ticket only. People who have booked tickets can submit questions can be submitted by email. 5.30, Medrus, Aberyswtyth University, SY23 3BY Details and to book
Friday 9th October
Frack Free Lancashire Benefit Party, 8.30pm, Town House Pub, St Annes Road West, Ltham St Annes, FY8 1SB Details
Saturday 10th October 2015
Barclays Bank demonstratons
Climate Day of Action Friends of the Earth urge Barclays to withdraw its funding for Third Energy which wants to frack in Ryedale Details
10am-1pm outside Barclays Bank, 2 High Street, Nottingham, NH1 2EN Details
10am-3pm outside Barclays Bank, 1-3 Parliament Street, York, YO1 8SE Details
10am outside Barclays Bank, Victoria Square, Bolton Details
10.45am outside Barclays Bank, King Edward Street, Hull HU1 3RL Details
11am outside Barclays Bank, 25 James Street, Harrogate HG1 1QX Details
12noon-2pm outside Barclays Bank, Pinstone Street, Sheffield S1 Details
12 noon-1pm, outside Barclays Bank, Terrace Road, Aberystwyth SY23 2AE Details
2pm outside Barclays Bank, 4 North Bar Within, Beverley HU17 8AY Details
More Barclays events on Friends of the Earth webpage
Other events
Symbolic circle of protection and demonstration, No Fracking in Our Forest contribution to global day of action against fracking, 10am, Cyril Hart Arboretum, Cinderford, Gloucestershire GL16 7EL
Sunday 11th October 2015
Hands Over Our Forth – public protest urging the Scottish Government to include underground coal gasification in the current moratorium, 2pm, Forth Road Bridge, Firth of Forth Edinburgh EH30 9SF Details
Wirral Against Fracking community walk across the sand to Hilbre Island where participants will hold hands to show unity against underground coal gasification. Meeting at West Kirby Marine Lake, South Parade, West Kirby CH48 3HZ at 11.45am, walk leaving at 12.10pm. Details
Mole Valley Greens event: Love Leith Hill, not oil drilling, a celebration for residents of Dorking of the beauty and tranquillity of Leith Hill, 10.30am-1pm, Bury Hill Wood, Coldharbour Lane. Details and more information from Chris.Crook.GreenParty@gmail.com
Keep Billingshurst Frack Free craft and chat afternoon with information about fracking locally and nationally, 2pm-5pm, the Women’s Hall, Billingshurst
Monday 12th October 2015
Regulators Question Time: meeting to question representatives from Department of Energy and Climate Change, Environment Agency and Health and Safety Executive, chaired by Kevin Hollinrake MP, 7pm-9pm, Main Hall, Malton School, Middlecave Road, Malton YO17 7NH. Admission by ticket only. Details
Fracking around the world with speakers Marianne Lloyd-Smith, senior advisor to the National Toxics Network and the Australian public interest NGO, IPEN, and Reverend Graham Cray, honorary assistant bishop in York and resident of Kirby Misperton who made his own trip to Pennsylvania, 8pm-9.30pm, Kirby Misperton Village Hall, High Row, Kirby Misperton YO1 6XN
Wednesday 14th October 2015
Final day for comments on Third Energy’s planning application to North Yorkshire County Council to frack the existing KM8 well at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale Details and link to application
Frack Free East Yorkshire meeting (planning session), 7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Quaker Lane, Woodlands, Beverley HU17 8BY Details
Frack Free Chorley public meeting about licences SD61 and SD62 in the Chorley, Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton areas, 7pm-9pm, Minstrel Pub, 22 Eaves Green, Chorley PR7 3PQ Details
Oil justice speaker tour, organised by War on Want, law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn and the Colombian NGO COSPACC, telling the stories of the victims of Big Oil, with former trade unionist Gilberto Torres, union advisor Francisco Ramirez Cuellar, Tom Lebert of War on Want, Lara Montesinos Coleman of Sussex University, and Sue Wilman of Deighton Pierce Glynn, 5pm-7pm, Jubilee Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex. Details and other dates
Erewash Green Party hosts a free public meeting to raise awareness of licence SK43 in Long Eaton on 14th October with guests from Frack Free Notts & Derby Climate Coalition. 7pm, Brennans, 2 Regent Street, Long Eaton, NG10 1JX.
Thursday 15th October 2015
European Shale Gas and Oil Summit 2015 Manchester Details
Labour Group on Forest of Dean District Council says it intends to put a motion to the full council meeting. The motion asks the council leader to express concern about unconventional oil and gas exploration and extraction in the area and to tell Department of Environment and Climate Change that the council is not in a position to support these developments. 7pm, Council Chamber, Council Offices, High Street, Coleford, Gloucestershire GL16 8HG. Details
Carwyn Connect First Minister Carwyn Jones tours all 22 local authorities in Wales to hear what matters to communities. Free event but entry by ticket only. People who have booked tickets can submit questions can be submitted by email. 5.30, Dylan Thomas Centre, Somerset Place, Swansea, SA1 1RR Details and to book
Friday 16th October 2015
European Shale Gas and Oil Summit 2015 Manchester Details
Saturday 17th October
Coffee Posse, organised by Frack Free Dee, 11am, Old Hall Farm, Kinsey Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH65 9JY Details
Public meeting about fracking in Melton and the Vale of Belvoir, 11am-1pm, Samworth Centre, 8 Burton Street, Melton Mowbray LE13 1AE Details
Tuesday 20th October 2015
Third Energy planning application to frack at Kirby Misperton is on the agenda – but not for decision – at a meeting of North Yorkshire County Council’s planning and regulatory functions committee, 10am, County Hall, Northallerton DL7 8AD Details
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Plean, Balfour Community Centre Details
Anti-fracking petition to be handed in to Rhondda Cynan Taff County Borough Council, 12 noon, council headquarters, The Pavilions, Cambrian Park, Clydach Vale, Tonypandy, CF40 2XX Details
Wednesday 21st October 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Menstrie, Dumyat Community Centre Details
Thursday 22nd October 2015
Hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand, London at which Roseacre Awareness Group will make its case to a judge for a judicial review of the approval by Lancashire County Council of Cuadrilla’s application for a monitoring arrat at Roseacre Wood. Time tbc
Carwyn Connect First Minister Carwyn Jones tours all 22 local authorities in Wales to hear what matters to communities. Free event but entry by ticket only. People who have booked tickets can submit questions can be submitted by email. 5.30, Theatr Clwyd, Raikes Lane, Mold, CH7 1YA Details and to book
Friday 23rd October 2015
Public meeting about licences in Broxtowe and Erewash boroughs, 7.30pm-9pm, John Clifford School, Nether Street, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 2AT Details
Public talk organised by Friends of the Earth, with presentations by Dr Tim Thornton, Simon Bowens and Anna Vickerstaff, 7.30pm, Galtres Centre, Easingwold, YO61 3AE
Reclaim the Beats: Fracking fundraiser, 7pm-3am, The Synergy Centre, 78 West Street, Brighton, BN1 2RA Details and tickets links
Saturday 24th October 2015
Frack Free Fayre, 10am-11.30am, Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DN Details
Sussex CPRE Workshop: Staying Ahead by Planning for tomorrow on which countryside issues matter most to the public. Open to non-members, 10am-2.30pm, Council Chambers, Billingshurst Community & Conference Centre, Roman Way, Billingshurst RH14 9QW, booking required
Monday 26th October
Shale Gas Environmental Summit London Details
Committee stage begins on the Enterprise Bill which includes a growth duty for regulators, which will require them to have regard to economic growth Details
Tuesday 27th October 2015
Parliamentary delegated legislation committee meets to discuss draft onshore hydraulic fracturing (protected areas) regulations 2015, 2.30pm, Room 9, Palace of Westminster. Details
Shale Gas Environmental Summit London Details
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Bannockburn Community Centre Details
Wednesday 28th October 2015
Helsby and Frodsham Awareness Meeting organised by Frack Free Dee, 7.300pm, Eccies Club, Mountain View, Helsby WA6 0BE Details
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Cowie Community Centre Details
Thursday 29th October 2015
Fracking – the industrialisation of Ryedale? Public talk organised by Frack Free Malton and Norton, with speakers Right Reverend Graham Cray, Tm Thornton, David Davis, Paul Andrews and the Nanas, 7.30pm-9.30pm Milton Rooms, Malton, YO17 7LX
Saturday 31st October 2015
East Yorkshire pop-up protest, 10am-12 noon, t-junction opposite the road from Hull, Wetwang Details
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Monday 2nd November 2015
Public meeting on shale gas fracking organised by local resident, Ruth Dunster, 7.30pm, Torrence Community Centre, School Road, Torrance, G64 4BZ
Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Announcement of Egdon Resources plc results for year ending 31st July 2015. Analyst meeting due at 9.30am, Buchanan, 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN Details
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Bonnybridge Community Education Centre Details
Wednesday 4th November 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Larbert, Dobbie Hall Details
Scottish Policy Conference: Energy in Scotland. Speakers include Fergus Ewing MSP, Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism, The Scottish Government; Charles Hargreaves, Associate Director, Renewable Energy, Ofgem and a senior speaker confirmed from SSE, 9am-1pm, venue in central Edinburgh tbc Details
Helsby and Frodsham Awareness Meeting organised by Frack Free Dee, 7.300pm, Frodsham Community Centre, The Cottage, Fluin Lane, WA6 7QN Details
Friday 6th November
Frack Free Ryedale Middle Eastern Feast fundraiser, Hovingham Village Hall. Tickets and details
Saturday 7th November 2015
Screening of Voices from the Gasfields by Ian R Crane, 7.30pm, Billingshurst Community Centre, Roman Way, Billingshurst RH14 9EW Details
Frack Free East Yorkshire street stall, 10am-12 noon, next to the town clock, Driffield Details
Monday 9th November 2015
Forum on Fracking by Bromley Friends of the Earth, 7pm, Friends Meeting House, 46 Ravensbourne Road, Bromley BR1 1HN Details
Fracking the Facts – free public event organised by Richmond Constituency Green Party, 7pm, Richmond Town Hall, Market Place, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4QL Details
Frack Free East Yorkshire fracking information evening, 7.30pm, Cass Hall, King Street, Driffield, YO25 6QW Details
Tuesday 10th November 2015
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors fracking seminar, 5pm-6pm, Holiday Inn, Lincoln, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln LN1 1YW Details
Publication of the government’s Public Attitudes Tracking Survey, Wave 15
Frack Free East Yorkshire fracking information evening, 7.30pm, Village Hall, Southfield Road, Wetwang YO25 9XX Details
Saturday 14th November 2015
Frack Free Ryedale Celebrating Ryedale Christmas Fair, 10am-4pm, Hovingham Village Hall, Main Street, Hovingham YO62 4LF Details
Surrey against Fracking public meeting with short film clips and speakers from Balcombe, 12-1.30pm, Community Hall, 53 Church Lane, Oxted, Surrey RH8 9NR
Tuesday 17th November 2015
Possible date for a decision on IGas application for monitoring boreholes at a proposed coal bed methane site at Springs Lane, Mission in Bassetlaw. Date and time to be confirmed.
Closing date for extended public consultation on Rathlin Energy’s planning extension for its West Newton A wellsite. The application (15/03056/STVAR) details are on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council planning website here.
Wednesday 18th November 2015
Target date for a decision on Third Energy’s planning application to North Yorkshire County Council to frack the existing KM8 well at Kirby Misperton Details and link to application
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Torrance Community Centre Details
Tuesday 24th November 2015
All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas meeting on “Better regulation and lessons from Canada” with the President and Chief Executive of Alberta Energy Regulator, Jim Ellis, and the DECC Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor John Loughhead. Venue and time to be confirmed.
Thursday 26th November 2015
Jeremy Leggett discusses his book The winning of the carbon war, 7pm, Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Road, Hastings TN34 1DT Details and too book
Saturday 28th November 2015
Campaign against climate change march in Scotland and Wales, times and locations to be confirmed, Details
Sunday 29th November 2015
Campaign against climate change march in London, times and locations to be confirmed, Details
Wednesday 2nd December 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Blackridge, Craig Inn Community Centre Details
Thursday 3rd December 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Plains Community Centre Details
Tuesday 8th December 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Hearthill Community Education Centre Details
Wednesday 9th December 2015
Ineos fracking consultation event, 3pm-8pm, Shotts Community Centre Details
Thursday 10th December
Closing date for comments on government consultation on the cap on costs for challenges under the Aarhus Convention to planning decisions and infrastructure projects. Details
22nd December 2015
Publication of the government’s Greenhouse gas emissions statistics – Q3 2015
2nd February 2016
Publication of the government’s Greenhouse gas emissions statistics – 2014 final figures
Public Attitudes Tracking Survey, Wave 16
31st March 2016
Publication of the government’s Greenhouse gas emissions statistics – Q4 2015*
Publication of the government’s Greenhouse gas emissions statistics – 2015 provisional figures
3rd May 2016
Publication of the government’s Public Attitudes Tracking Survey, Wave 17
30th June 2016
Publication of the government’s Greenhouse gas emissions statistics – Q1 2016
28th July 2016
Publication of the government’s Digest of UK Energy Statistics – 2015
29th September 2016
Publication of the government’s Greenhouse gas emissions statistics – Q2 2016
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