Women’s Call protest at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site, near Blackpool

In this week’s listings:

• Exhibitions in support and against INEOS shale gas plans in the East Midlands;
• Women’s protest about policing and gathering for environmental Groups at Preston New Road shale gas site
• Are We Going to be Fracked? presentations in Woodsetts, Rotherham, plus Woodsetts parish council meeting;
• Demonstration outside Lancashire County Council in Preston

Please let us know (click here) if any of these details are incorrect or if other events should be included. Listings for the rest of August and beyond here.

Monday 14 August 2017

Anti-fracking – First ‘Green Monday’: the first of a series of “Green Mondays” for members of the Green Party and environmental groups to join protests against fracking at Cuadrilla’s shale gas site, near Blackpool. 10am-4pm, Preston New Road, PR4 3PH. Details

Final day of Earth First! Summer Gathering: five days of skill-sharing for grassroots ecological direct action. Colesdale Farm, Northaw Road West, Cuffley, Hertfordshire EN6 4QZ. Details

Are We Going to be Fracked? Three identical presentations by Frack Free South Yorkshire, 10.30am, 2.30pm, 7pm, Woodsetts Village Hall, Gildingwells Road, Woodsetts S81 8QB

Tuesday 15 August 2017

Don’t frack the commonweal. Forest of Dean artist, Tom Cousins, visit to Broadford Bridge site, West Sussex, to create a spoke for an eight-spoke wheal which will be presented to MPs and Peers at Westminster. 11am-4pm, Broadford Bridge exploration site, Adversane Lane, Broadford Bridge, near Billingshurst, West Sussex. Details

Visit to protest at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site by Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Fylde, Jed Sullivan, Labour councillor, Lorraine Beavers and Labour MP for Bolton South East, Yasmin Qureshi, 1.30pm, Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PH. Details

INEOS Community Exhibition, 2.30pm-7pm, Creswell Social Centre, Elmston Road, Cresswell S80 4BH. Details

Alternative anti-fracking exhibition, 2.30pm-7pm, The Black Diamond, 172 Elmton Road, Creswell S80 4BH. Details

Sheffield Climate Alliance meeting, 7pm-9pm, The Quaker Meeting House, St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Details

Wednesday 16 August 2017

Women’s Call 4, protest against policing at Cuadrilla ‘s Preston New Road site near Blackpool, 9.30am-12.30pm, Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, PR4 3PH. Details

Lancashire County Council demonstration and rally, hosted by Bolton Against Fracking, 10am, County Hall, Preston, PR1 8XR. Details

Public meeting held by IGas, afternoon, 3pm, Holiday Inn, Centre Island, Waterways, Lower Mersey Street, Ellesmere Port CH65 2AL. Details

Demonstration outside IGas meeting (see above) against the company’s application to flow test at its Portside site, at Ellesmere Port. 3pm-7pm, outside Holiday Inn, Centre Island, Waterways, Lower Mersey Street, Ellesmere Port CH65 2AL. Details

Frack Free Ashfield film and information night, 7.30pm-9pm, Teversal Scout Hut 11 Fackley Road Teversal NG17 3HN.

Meeting of Woodsetts Parish Council, which includes INEOS plans for shale gas well in the parish, Woodsetts Village Hall, Gildingwells Road, Woodsetts S81 8QB. Details

Photo: cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Mat Fascione – geograph.org.uk/p/4988447

Friday 18 August 2017

Cops and Robbers Day @ PNR, 8am-6.30pm, Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool Details

Don’t frack the commonweal, Forest of Dean artist, Tom Cousins, visit to the Isle of Wight Garlic Farm, to create a spoke for an eight-spoke wheal which will be presented to MPs and Peers at Westminster. 11am-3pm, Mersley Ln, Newchurch, Sandown PO36 0NR. Details

Mosborough Against Fracking family fun craft day, 1pm-4pm, Elim Church, 79 Worksop Road, Mosborough S20 5DP. Details

Saturday 19 August 2017

Shirebrook Labour Party anti-fracking stall, 8am-1.300pm, Shirebrook Market, Town Centre, Shirebrook, Derbyshire. Details

Frack Free Doncaster information stall at Auckley Show, Auckley, Doncaster DN9 3PA. Details