In this week’s events listing:
- Latest government data on attitudes to fracking
- Nottingham Secular Society debate on fracking
- Seminars on the world energy outlook and carbon capture and storage
- Plus activists’ summits, planning meetings and film screening
Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included. And click here for our event listing for the rest of February and beyond here.
Monday 6 February 2017
Continuing rolling roadside protest against Cuadrilla’s operations at Preston New Road, 9am-3pm, Preston New Road, Westby PR4 Details
Frack Off! Frack On! Nottingham Secular Society debate between INEOS and Frack Free Nottinghamshire. The motion is: “This House believes that Fracking is intrinsically safe and will be of great benefit to our country!” 7.30pm-9pm, The Canal House Bar, 48-52 Canal Street, Nottingham NG1 7EH. Details
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy release of final greenhouse gas emissions for 2015, 9.30am, gov.uk website. Details
Continuing rolling roadside protest against Cuadrilla’s operations at Preston New Road, 9am-3pm, Preston New Road, Westby PR4 Details
Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum Keynote Seminar: Future prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage, morning, central London. Details
University College London Institute for Sustainable Resources and Energy Institute joint seminar: World Energy Outlook 2016, 5.30pm, GO1, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0NN. Details and to book
Frack Free Yeovil meeting, 7pm-10pm, Meadow Road, Yeovil BA21 5PD. Details and venue address.
Free film screening of Do The Math, hosted by Fossil Free Greater Manchester, 7pm-9pm, Black Dog Ballroom, Church Street, Manchester M4 1PW. Details and to register
Sheffield Against Fracking monthly meeting, 7.30pm, Cafe, Central United Reformed Church, Chapel Walk, off Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB. Details
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Continuing rolling roadside protest against Cuadrilla’s operations at Preston New Road, 9am-3pm, Preston New Road, Westby PR4 Details
The Lush Summit for activists and campaigners, 11am-5pm, Tobacco Dock, Wapping Lane, London E1W 2SF. Details and to register
Frack Free East Yorkshire planning meeting, 7.30pm, the Blue Bell, 5 River Head, Driffield YO25 6NX. Details
Thursday 9 February 2017
Continuing rolling roadside protest against Cuadrilla’s operations at Preston New Road, 9am-3pm, Preston New Road, Westby PR4 Details
Publication of Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Public Attitudes Tracking Survey, Wave 20, 9.30am, gov.uk website. Details
The Lush Summit for activists and campaigners, 11am-5pm, Tobacco Dock, Wapping Lane, London E1W 2SF. Details and to register
Frack Free Cleveland meeting, 6pm-8pm, Salburn House Hotel bar, Marine Parade, Saltburn TS12 1BX. Details
Eckington Against Fracking publicmeeting, 7.30pm, Eckington Miners Welfare, Pipeyard Lane, Sheffield S21 4FA. Details
Friday 10 February 2017
Continuing rolling roadside protest against Cuadrilla’s operations at Preston New Road, 9am-3pm, Preston New Road, Westby PR4 Details
Frack Free Notts leafleting at Light Night 2017, 7pm-9pm, outside Broadway Cinema, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL. Details
Saturday 11 February 2017
11-and-a-half hour protest against drilling for oil in Bury Hill Wood, near Leith Hill, Dorking. 8am-7.30pm, Leith Hill Protection Camp, Coldharbour Lane, Coldharbour, Surrey. Details
Solidarity Saturday, gathering in support of opponents of Cuadrilla’s shale gas operation at Preston New Road, Lancashire, 10am-2pm, Maple Farm, Preston New Road, PR4 3PE.Details
Friends of the Earth Yorkshire gathering, 10.30am-5pm, The Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, York, YO1 6ET. Details or carla.doran@foe.co.uk
Sunday 12 February 2017
Frack Free Totnes public meeting, 7pm-9pm, Royal Seven Stars Hotel, The Plains, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5DD. Details
Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included. And click here for our event listing for the rest of February and beyond here.
Categories: Diary
DRILL OR DROP? 
08-02-17 Some news from USA on the overturning of the Obama decision to delay the Dakota Pipeline from crossing native sacred lands.
Yesterday, a judge reversed the previous court decision and granted the final easement for the Dakota Access pipeline to go underneath the Missouri River. The decision not only violates treaty law, it completely ignores the environmental analysis ordered by the Obama Administration.
With this action, the courts also waived the standard 15-day legislative comment period, which means the easement can be granted as early as today. The pipeline is considered a dangerous intrusion threatening the people of Standing Rock and the millions of Americans who live downstream.
There is evidence that president Trump had financial interests in the Dakota pipeline and has expedited the pipeline in spite of the Army Core refusal of the easement and the breaking of the treaty with the native peoples. The pipeline company have carried on working in contravention of the easement ban, the treaty and the Obama decision and has used armed anonymous unmarked paramilitary violent tactics against the unarmed protectors including firing live ammunition, a rocket launcher and the use of blinding lights sound weapons, and water hoses in freezing temperatures.
Ruth, did the BEIS releast the figures of 2015 ghg emissions as due on Tuesday of this week? If they did, do you have a link? If they didn’t do you have any info re why not? Many thanks, Linda H