Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site. Photo: Roseacre Awareness Group
In this week’s listings
- Cuadrilla goes to the High Court to seek an injunction over Preston New Road
- North Yorkshire County Council considers responses to its minerals plan
- House of Lords debate on shale gas benefits
Plus meetings, awareness-raising walk, information events and demonstrations.
Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included.
Events listing for the rest of March and beyond here
Monday 6 March 2017
Ongoing roadside protest at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road Site, Little Plumpton, Lancashire PR4 3PJ. Details
Cuadrilla seeks an injunction over access at its site at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool 11.30am, High Court, Manchester Civil and Family Justice Centre, 1 Bridge Street West, Manchester M60 9DJ
Tuesday 7 March 2017
9am deadline for applications to the 2017 Campaign Bootcamp. Details
Executive of North Yorkshire County Council considers responses to Minerals and Waste Joint Plan, 11am, County Hall, Northallerton, North Yorkshire DL7 8AD. Details
Short debate called by Lord Truscott on the economic and environmental benefits of shale gas development in the UK, after 11am, House of Lords, London SW1A 1AA. Details
Sheffield Against Fracking monthly meeting, 7.30pm, Cafe, Central United Reformed Church, Chapel Walk, off Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB. Details
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Walk the No Fracking Way. Day 1: Kirby Misperton-Easingwold. Details
Swap work for work. Additional week-day protest against Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site, 9.30am, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, Lancashire. Details
Bolton Against Fracking Monthly Meeting, 7pm, Cotton Tree Pub, Bolton BL1 2NP Details
Thursday 9 March 2017
Walk the No Fracking Way. Day 2:Easingwold-Harrogate. Details
Frack Free Cleveland meeting, 6pm, Saltburn House Hotel bar, Marine Parade, Saltburn, Redcar and Cleveland TS12 1BX. Details
Frack Free Kirton in Lindsey meeting about Wressle appeal, 7pm, The Yarborough Hunt pub, 49 Bridge Street, Brigg, North Lincolnshire DN20 8NS. Details
Public meeting on fracking, 7pm, St. Mary’s Church Parish Rooms, St. Mary’s Church, Darley Lane, Derby DE1 3AU. Details
No Fracking Way social meet, 7pm-11.30pm, Major Tom’s Social, 3 The Ginnel, Harrogate, HG1 2RB Details
Public meeting, Fracking in Scotland, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Porty Wash House, 3 Adelphi Grove, Portobello, Edinburgh EH15 1AP. Details
Friday 10 March 2017
Walk the No Fracking Way. Day 3: Harrogate-Silsden. Details
Saturday 11 March 2017
Walk the No Fracking Way. Day 4: Silsden-Longridge. Details
Fracking in Bassetlaw awareness stall, 10am-1pm, Carolgate, Retford, Nottinghamshire DN22 6DY. Details
Fossil Fuels v Clean Energy: No Drilling near Billingshurst, 2pm-4pm, next to the Blacksmiths Arms, corner of Adversane Lane, Broadford Bridge, RH14 9JH. Details
Frack Free Cleveland meeting, 2pm-4pm, Saltburn House Hotel Bar, Marine Parade, Saltburn, Redcar and Cleveland, TS12 1BX. Details
No fracking anywhere demonstration against fracking, 2pm-3pm, the Cyril Hart Arboretum, near Coleford, Gloucestershire GL16 7EL. Details
Leicestershire Against Onshore Drilling Springtime Frack-Free Festival, 2-5pm, location tbc Details
Sunday 12 March 2017
Walk the No Fracking Way. Day 5: Longridge-Preston New Road. Details
Community presentation and discussion hosted by Frack Free Driffield and the Wolds and Frack Free East Yorkshire, doors open 2pm, presentation 3pm, Village Hall, 2 Middle Street, Nafferton, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO25 4JS
Categories: Diary
DRILL OR DROP? 
It would make a refreshing change is the Lords actually debated the negatives of fracking and then there might actually be some balance!
Background to Lord Truscott
“works with a variety of companies in the field of non-renewable resource extraction. Previously somewhat low-profile in British politics, he made headlines in 2009 as one of four Labour peers named by the Sunday Times as being willing to accept money to help companies amend bills that would have an adverse effect on them.[2] He consequently became one of the first peers suspended from the House of Lords since the 17th century.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Truscott,_Baron_Truscott
What a big mud pool. All that work digging up dirt for 2 months of work. Surely the protesters have achieved more than Cuadrilla for all their power and resources.
News from Carbon Brief this week
All told, CO2 emissions in 2016 were around 36% below 1990 levels, why? well mainly because coal has been crushed by the carbon price and the rise of renewables and gas in combination ….. that’s it so gas works with renewables because it’s lower carbon than coal and works as a back-up when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. Either that, nuclear or wood chips.
[Moderator: The 36% drop refers to UK emissions. Globally, emissions rose 61% between 1990 and 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-carbon-emissions-idUSBRE9AI00A20131119
US emissions rose 7% between 1990 and 2014
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
/moderator]
I’m very worried about the possible harmful effects of herbal tea. I see from the news that two people in San Francisco have become ill after drinking herbal tea. In my view we should ban herbal tea immediately and never attempt to drink it again until it can be conclusively shown that herbal teas will never ever become contaminated again and that therefore no-one will ever be harmed. I realise herbal tea is a healthy substitute for caffeine based beverages and that 100,000 people drink herbal teas every day. without harm but the risk is just too great. Keep it on the bush!