In this week’s listing: the latest government data on public attitudes to fracking, plus meetings, information events, presentations, petitions, deadlines and performances. Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included.
Monday 1 May 2017
Frack Free Ryedale pop up shop and tea party, 10.30am-4pm, Oldfield Cottage, Brookside, Hovingham YO62 4IG. Details
Frack Free Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw Against Fracking stall at the annual Retford Charter Day. Retford town centre, Nottinghamshire, DN22. Details
Sheffield Against Fracking and Mosborough Against Fracking stall at Chesterfield May Day 40th Parade. Details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Tuesday 2 May 2017
Deadline under planning conditions for the start of work at Cuadrilla’s oil exploration site at Balcombe, West Sussex. Details
Publication of report of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee report Leaving the EU: negotiation priorities for energy and climate change policy
Presentation of change.org anti-fracking petition to MSP Rona MacKay, 3pm, Scottish Parliament, Holyrood. Link to petition
UK Environmental Law Association East Midlands, topical update on shale gas, including presentations from INEOS Shale on its plans for the UK and the region.
Superintendent Richard Robertshaw, silver commander for policing operation at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site at Preston New Road, is taking questions , 7pm-8pm, Fylde Police Facebook page
Frack Free Yeovil meeting, 7pm-9.30pm, Crofton Avenue, Yeovil BA21 4DL. Contact for more details
Sheffield Against Fracking AGM, 7pm-9.30pm, Central United Reformed Church, 60 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 2JB. Details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Frack Free East Yorkshire planning meeting, 7.30pm, Quaker Meeting House, Quaker Lane, Woodlands, Beverley HU17 8BY. Details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Thursday 4 May 2017
Local government elections
Publication of Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Public Attitudes Tracking Survey, Wave 21, 9.30am, gov.uk website. Details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 2.30pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Frack Free North Somerset Open Meeting, 7.30pm-9.30pm, The Bristol Hotel, 29 Locking Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 3BZ. Details
Meeting of Lancaster Fights Fracking, 7.30pm, The Apothecary, 87 Penny Street, Lancaster LA1 1XN
Public meeting about fracking, 7.30pm, Eckington Miners Welfare, Pipeyard Lane, Eckington S21 4FA. Details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Friday 5 May 2017
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Saturday 6 May 2017
Stick a leaf or flower message on the Frack Free tree, in collaboration with Dronfield Against Fracking, Mosborough Against Fracking and Frack Free South Yorkshire, 10.30am-1pm, Clock Corner, Doncaster. Details
Anti-fracking worship for witness, 2pm, summit of Pendle Hill, Lancashire. Details
Weekly gathering in Billingshurst, 2pm-4pm, next to Blacksmith’s Arms, corner of Adversane Lane and A29, West Sussex RH14 9JH. Contact keepbillingshurstfrackfree@mail.comfor more details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 2.30pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Performance of Fracked! Or Please don’t use the F-word, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1SD. Details
Sunday 7 May 2017
Start of week-long Campaign Bootcamp, Bore Place, Kent. Details
Categories: Diary
DRILL OR DROP? 
Report this morning that the anti-fracking film, which apparently uses footage of Schindler’s List overdubbed with Tina Rothbury’s voice, has been roundly condemned, including by Tina herself. It seems that the film may have wished to parallel treatment of protesters with the holocaust. Let’s hope it’s buried and left in the ground. I think I have seen similar sentiments expressed elsewhere.
Some good news ….the UK’s CO2 emissions dropped nearly 5% last year compared with the year before, we are setting a good example by closing coal fired stations ahead of schedule. Looks like this summer will show the lowest CO2 emissions on record from electricity generation….. if only we could stop Germany from burning brown coal.