In this week’s listings:
- Daily Frack Free Fun Club in Lancashire
- Deadline for comments on Scottish Government consultation on unconventional oil and gas
- Direct action training workshops
- More screenings off The Bentley Effect
June Drilling Diary coming soon for future events. Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included.
Monday 29 May 2017
Frack Free Fun Club: family-friendly fun during half term, 10am-4pm, Maple Farm Nursery, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details
Tuesday 30 May 2017
Frack Free Fun Club: family-friendly fun during half term, 10am-4pm, Maple Farm Nursery, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details
Screening of The Bentley Effect, 6.30pm-9.30pm: Village hall, Pottergate, Gilling East, YO62 4JJ. Details
Wednesday 31 May 2017
Final date for comments on the Scottish Government’s consultation on fracking. Details
Divest from fossil fuels events to encourage the Church of England to divest from ExxonMobil. Demonstration outside Exxon’s Fawley refinery, meet 6am for 6.30am start in field next to Fawley Church SO45 1SQ. Time to Cycle bike ride between the refinery and Salisbury Cathedral, departing 9.30am from field next to Fawley Church. Vigil outside Salisbury Cathedral, meet 4pm outside the High Street (north) entrance to Cathedral Close. Details
Anti-fracking campaigners from the Netherlands visit Cuadrilla’s Lancashire shale gas site, 10am, meeting at Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little PLumpton PR4 3PE. Details
Frack Free Fun Club: family-friendly fun during half term, 10am-4pm, Maple Farm Nursery, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details
Screening of The Bentley Effect, 6.30pm-9pm: The Feathers Hotel, Market Place Helmsley, York Y062 5BH-The Feathers Hotel, Market Place Helmsley, York Y062 5BH. Details
Frack Free Yeovil meeting, 7pm-9.30pm, Townsend, Marston Magna, Yeovil BA22 8BP. Details and to contact
General Election hustings organised by Horsham Churches Together, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Brighton Road Baptist Church, Brighton Road, Horsham RH13 5BD. Details
Thursday 1 June 2017
Speed limit of 30mph comes into force on Habton Road, Kirby Misperton, for work at Third Energy’s shale gas site.
Lancaster Uni goes to Preston New Road, 9.15am, Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site, Little Plumpton, Blackpool FY4 5JS. Details or Facebook event
Frack Free Fun Club: family-friendly fun during half term, 10am-4pm, Maple Farm Nursery, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details
Screening of The Bentley Effect, 6pm-9pm: Scarborough Library Vernon Rd, Scarborough YO11 2NN. Details
Take action to stop fracking. Direct action meeting organised by Reclaim the Power, 7.30pm-10.30pm, The Red Lion, 109 Charles Street, Sheffield S1 2ND. Details
Meeting of Lancaster Fights Fracking, 7.30pm, The Apothecary, 87 Penny Street, Lancaster LA1 1XN
Public meeting about shale gas plans in north east Derbyshire, 7.30pm, Eckington Miners’ Welfare, Pipeyard Lane, S21 4FA. Details
Friday 2 June 2017
Frack Free Fun Club: family-friendly fun during half term, 10am-4pm, Maple Farm Nursery, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE. Details
Screening of The Bentley Effect, 7pm, Pickering Community Junior School, Middleton Road, Pickering YO18 8AJ. Details
Friends of the Earth Basecamp, an annual gathering of the environmental justice movement, Castleton Youth Hostel, Castleton, Derbyshire, more details from gettogether@foe.co.uk and here
Saturday 3 June 2017
Anti-fracking direct action training, organised by Reclaim the Power and delivered by Seeds for Change and Green and Black Cross, Nottingham. Continues on Sunday 14 May Details and application
Friends of the Earth Basecamp, an annual gathering of the environmental justice movement, Castleton Youth Hostel, Castleton, Derbyshire, more details from gettogether@foe.co.uk and here
Green and Black Cross legal observer training course, 1pm-5pm, Scarborough Railway Club, railway station forecourt, Scarborough, North Yorkshire YO11 1TN. Details
Screening of The Bentley Effect, 7pm-9pm: Friends of the Earth Basecamp, Castleton Youth Hostel, Castleton, Derbyshire
Sunday 4 June 2017
Anti-fracking direct action training, organised by Reclaim the Power and delivered by Seeds for Change and Green and Black Cross, Nottingham. Continues on Sunday 14 May Details and application
Friends of the Earth Basecamp, an annual gathering of the environmental justice movement, Castleton Youth Hostel, Castleton, Derbyshire, more details from gettogether@foe.co.uk and here
Screening of The Bentley Effect, 6.30pm-10pm: Sacred Sound Healing & Arts Centre, Intake Business Park, Kirkland Avenue, Mansfield, Notts NG18 5QP. Details
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DRILL OR DROP? 
Good luck to all the protesters. Don’t let Britain turn into the dirty old man of Europe. There’s plenty of hope on the horizon but it’s going to take a government with the right drive and vision to make it happen.