60+ events in October 2017 about fracking and onshore oil and gas in the UK including:
- Anti-fracking demonstrations in Manchester, Lancashire and North Yorkshire;
- Community exhibitions;
- Art auction fundraiser;
- Council decision meetings;
- Town hall meeting on fracking research;
- Tour by Canadian campaigner, Jessica Ernst;
- Global Frackdown day.
Plus group planning meetings, training sessions, film screenings and presentations.
Please let us know here if you’d like us to add your events or if any details are wrong. This post will be updated throughout the month with new information.
Sunday 1 October 2017
New Scientist Live, 10am-5pm, ExCel London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London E16 1XL Details
National Demonstration as part of the Take Back Manchester Festival, organised by People’s Assembly, to coincide with the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Details and more here
Protest the Tory Party conference: climate and fracking block, 11am-4.30pm, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, The Crescent, Salford M5 4WU. Details
Legal Observer Training with Green and Black Cross, hosted by Kirby Misperton Protection Camp, 12.30pm-6pm, Kirby Misperton Protection Camp, YO17 6UE. Details
Monday 2 October 2017
Green Mondays event at Preston New Road. Guest speakers: Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party, and Barbara Richardson, of Frack Free Lancashire. 10am, Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site, near Blackpool PR4 3PH. Details
United in Silence – Quaker vigil, gathering to mark the start of National Quaker week. 10.30am-11.45am, gates to Broadford Bridge oil exploration, Adversane Lane, Broadford Bridge, near Billingshurst. Details
Climate and fracking protest and meeting during the Conservative Party Conference, 1pm-6pm, protest at Central Library, St Peter’s Square Manchester M2 5PD followed by meeting at Unison offices, Arena Point, 1 Hunts Bank, Manchester M3 1UN. Details
INEOS Community Exhibition, 2.30pm-7pm Warsop Ex-servicemen’s Club, Carr Lane, Mansfield NG20 0BN. Details
Alternative anti-fracking exhibition, 2.30pm-7pm, Warsop Town Hall, Church Street, Warsop NG20 0AL. Details and more here
Frack Free Dearne Valley meeting, 5pm, Church Hall, United Reformed Church, Melton High Street, Wath-upon-Dearne S63 6RG. Details
Art auction and opening night of Art Against Fracking, 7pm-9pm, The Whale Tail Cafe, 78a Penny Street, Lancaster LA1 1XN. Details
Say No to Fracking in Nottinghamshire: October action planning meeting, 7pm-9.30pm, Lincolnshire Poacher, 161-163 Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FR Details
Shirebrook and Langwith anti-fracking group meeting, Jug & Glass Inn, Queen’s Walk, Nether Langwith NG20 9EW. Details
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Green Party co-leader, Jonathan Bartley, due to visit protesters outside Third Energy’s Kirby Misperton fracking site in North Yorkshire. Details
Closing date for evidence to be served on the claimants in the INEOS injunction case, 4pm, the High Court, 7 Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London EC4N 1NL. Details
Sheffield Against Fracking meeting, 7.30pm, Central United Reformed Church, Chapel Walk, off Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB. Details
Harvest Festival gathering for prayer, celebration, singing, music and dancing followed by harvest supper, 6.30pm, entrance to Third Energy well site, Habton Road, Kirby Misperton YO17 6XS. Details
Clay Cross anti-fracking meeting, Charlie’s Bar, 4 Thanet Street, Clay Cross S45 9JR. Details and more here
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Scheduled date of case of campaigners charged over lock-on protests outside the Broadford Bridge oil exploration site. 10am, Brighton Magistrates Court, Edward Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 0LG
Peaceful assembly for our world gathering, organised the the Catholic Climate Movement, 11.30am, Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE followed by procession to entrance of Cuadrilla’s shale gas site.. Contact for details: rfturn@hotmail.com
Town hall meeting to discuss challenges of a new £8m research programme on Unconventional Hydrocarbons in the UK Energy System: Environmental & Socio-economic impacts and processes. Details
Keep on walking and talking, after-school walk to Third Energy’s fracking site at Kirby Misperton, 3.30pm, leaving from the village playpark. Details
Frack Free Lancashire meeting, 7pm, Maple Farm Community Hub, Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PE.
Harthill Against Fracking public meeting, Harthill Village Hall, Winney Hill, Harthill S26 7YL. Details
Thursday 5 October 2017
Eckington Against Fracking meeting, 7.30pm, Eckington Miners’ Welfare, Pipeyard Lane, Eckington S21 4FA. Details
Friday 6 October 2017
Live stream tour of Cuadrilla’s shale gas exploration site at Preston New Road, Lancashire. 2pm-3pm, to register and submit questions from 9am go to: http://pnrlive.co.uk/
Saturday 7 October 2017
Information stall by Frack Free South Yorkshire, 10am-2.30pm, Clay Cross. Details
Are We Going to be Fracked? Frack Free South Yorkshire hour-long session on fracking to Bakewell Quakers’ Green Day, 11.30am-12.30pm, Quaker Meeting House, Chapel Lane, Bakewell DE45 1EL. Details
Art Against Oil – Leith Hill anti-fracking picnic and workshop. 12 noon-3pm, The Nower park, off Coldharbour Lane, Dorking. Details
Anti-fracking fundraiser, 8pm-12 midnight, The Assembly Rooms, High Street, Glastonbury BA6 9DU. Details
Frack Free Yeovil gig, 9pm-1am, The 94 Club, 94 Middle Street, Yeovil BA20 1TY. Details
Monday 9 October 2017
Romaine Phoenix, former co-chair of The People’s Assembly) is main speaker at “Green Monday” rally at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool PR4 3PE.
The Story of how Fracking Ruined My Water, presentation by Canadian Jessica Ernst on how she took legal action against the oil and gas company, Encana, and the Alberta government and energy regulator when regulations failed. 7pm, The Milton Rooms, Market Place, Malton YO17 7LX.
Reviewing the Government policy of making no funding available to meet the additional policing costs of fracking. Oral questions in the House of Lords. Details
Tuesday 10 October 2017
The Story of how Fracking Ruined My Water, presentation by Canadian Jessica Ernst on how she took legal action against the oil and gas company, Encana, and the Alberta government and energy regulator when regulations failed. 7.30pm, Eckington Civic Centre, Market Street, Eckington, Derbyshire S21 4JG. Details
Frack Free Misson meeting to discuss exploratory well site a Springs Road, 7.30pm, Angel Inn, Dame Lane, Misson, Doncaster DN10 6EB. Details
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Labour Day at Kirby Misperton. Event organised by Thirsk and Malton Constituency Labour Party. 8.30am, entrance to Third Energy fracking site, Habton Road, Kirby Misperton YO17 6XS.
Meeting by British Geological Survey about plans for a Geo-energy Observatory at Ince Marshes. 10am-12 noon, Elton Village Hall, School Lane, Elton, Chester, CH2 4LT. Details
Meeting by British Geological Survey about plans for a Geo-energy Observatory at Ince Marshes. 6pm-8pm, Thornton Church Hall. Details
The Story of how Fracking Ruined My Water, presentation by Canadian Jessica Ernst on how she took legal action against the oil and gas company, Encana, and the Alberta government and energy regulator when regulations failed. 7pm, St Anne’s-on-the-Sea United Reformed Church, St George’s Road, Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire FY8 2AD. Details
Mosborough Against Fracking monthly meeting, 7.30pm, Queen’s Hotel, 135 High Street, Mosborough S20 5AF. Details
Thursday 12 October 2017
Scheduled date of case of campaigners charged over lock-on protests outside the Broadford Bridge oil exploration site. 10am, Brighton Magistrates Court, Edward Street, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 0LG
Cresswell anti-fracking meeting with guest speaker, David Kesteven, 7.15pm, Limestone House, 50-54 Elmton Road, Cresswell S80 4JE. Details
Friday 13 October 2017
Fundraising auction event for Harthill Against Fracking, 7.30pm, Harthill Village Hall, Winney Hill, Harthill S26 7YL. Details
Saturday 14 October 2017
Global Frackdown initiated by Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Watch Europe. Details
Friends of the Earth International Day of Action on Climate Change. Details
Photocall with wildlife theme to highlight potential impact of shale gas drilling on local site of special scientific interest, 9.30am, Misson Village Green, Misson, Doncaster. Details
Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground, rally hosted by Friends of the Earth Sheffield, with speakers Paul Blomfield MP, Tina Rothery (Frack Free Lancashire), Richard Dyer (Friends of the Earth), John Campbell (Unison), David Kesteven (Eckington Against Fracking), Janet Paske (Fossil Free South Yorkshire). 10.30am-12 noon, Sheffield City Hall, Barkers Pool, Sheffield S1 2JA. Details
Nottingham says No Fracking Here, No Fracking Anywhere, 11am-2pm, The Fountains, Market Square, Nottingham. Details
Slow running Saturday. Local runners are planning a “slow run” past the gates of Third Energy’s fracking site, 11am, Habton Road, Kirby Misperton YO17 6XS.
Global Frackdown event, 1.30pm-3pm, Maple Farm Community Hub, Preston New Road, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details
Let’s Celebrate the Fracking Ban on Global Frackdown Day, event by Love Leitrim, national and international speakers, 7.30pm, The Rainbow Ballroom, Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, Ireland. Details
Sunday 15 October 2017
We Care Walk, as part of Protect Our Futures Day. 10.30am, Kings Mill Reservoir Visitors Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield NG17 4PA. Details
Monday 16 October 2017
London Oil & Gas Class, hosted by Energy Training Solutions, 9am, The Bloomsbury, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN. Details
Anti-fracking awareness stall, 10am-8pm, Tesco Superstore, Mill Street, Clowne, Chesterfield S43 4JN. Details
Are We Going To Be Fracked? presentation and meeting, 7.15pm, Coal Aston Village Hall, Eckington Road, Coal Aston, Dronfield S18 3AX. Details
Sheffield Friends of the Earth meeting, 7.30pm-9.30pm, The Red Deer, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield S1 4DD. To be confirmed
Frack Field Mansfield meeting, 7.30pm-9.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Rosemary Street, Mansfield NG19 6AB. Details
The Story of how Fracking Ruined My Water, presentation by Canadian Jessica Ernst on how she took legal action against the oil and gas company, Encana, and the Alberta government and energy regulator when regulations failed. 7.30pm, Fermanagh House, Broadmeadow Place, Enniskillen, BT74 7HR.
Tuesday 17 October 2017
London Oil & Gas Class, hosted by Energy Training Solutions, 9am, The Bloomsbury, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN. Details
Sheffield Climate Alliance annual general meeting, 7pm-9pm, Quaker Meeting House, St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW. Details
Meeting of Frack Free Bolsover, 7pm-9pm, The Oxcroft Institute, 55 Clowne Road, Stanfree, S44 6AG
Clay Cross Against Fracking meeting, 7pm, Charlies Bar & Restaurant, 4 Thanet Street, Clay Cross S45 9JR. Details
Are we going to be fracked? presentation, 7pm, Whitwell Community Centre, Portland Street, Whitwell, Worksop S80 4NN. Details
Wednesday 18 October 2017
London Oil & Gas Class, hosted by Energy Training Solutions, 9am, The Bloomsbury, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN. Details
Silent protest by campaigners who say their views are not being listening to on Europa’s Leith Hill traffic management plan. 10am, outside County Hall, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2DN.
Surrey County Council planning meeting due to discuss application for flow testing and further drilling at Horse Hill (SCC ref 2016/0189), and traffic management plan and fencing applications for Europa’s Bury Hill Wood/Leith Hill site. 10.30am, Ashcombe Suite, County Hall, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2DN. Details

Horse Hill oil exploration site, Surrey. Photo: Eddie Mitchell
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council meeting at which members are expected to debate a motion committing the council to “not allow any fracking activities, including survey work, on Council owned or control land and property”. 2pm, Town Hall, Moorgate Street, Rotherham S60 2TH. Details
Demonstration and information stall outside IGas drop-in event (see below), 3pm-7.30pm, Elton Community Centre, School Lane, Elton, Chester CH2 4PU. Details
Drop-in exhibition by IGas about plans for drilling and fracking in the Ince Marshes, 3.30pm-7.30pm, Elton Community Centre, School Lane, Elton, Chester CH2 4PU.
Film screening of Groundswell organised by Frack Free Dearne Valley, 7pm, The Montgomery Hall, Church Street, Wath-upon-Dearne, S63 7RD. Details
Fashion Show, by Woodsetts Against Fracking, 7pm, Woodsetts Primary School, Wellfield Crescent, Woodsetts S81 8SD. Details
Thursday 19 October 2017
London Oil & Gas Class, hosted by Energy Training Solutions, 9am, The Bloomsbury, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NN. Details
Friday 20 October 2017
Display of Eckington Against Fracking Scarecrow Competition until Saturday 28 October. See poster right.
Film screening of The Bentley Effect, organised by Frack Free Upton, 7:30pm, St Columbas Church Hall. Plas Newton Lane, Chester, CH2 1SA. Details
Saturday 21 October 2017
Community Strategy Conversation for a Frack Free Lancashire. Meeting to discuss anti-fracking campaigning in Lancashire. Open to all groups. 1.30pm-5pm, Holy Trinity Church, Dean Street, South Shore, Blackpool FY4 1BP. Details
Monday 23 October 2017
Breaking the Chain: An exhibition about fracking by CoResist, Hamilton House Gallery, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. Details
Closing date for comments on application by IGas to the Environment Agency for a radioactive substances permit for the Stockbridge oil site, Crawley Down, Hampshire. Details
Green Monday at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, meeting at Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PH. Details
Anti-fracking awareness stall, 10am-8pm, Tesco Superstore, Mill Street, Clowne, Chesterfield S43 4JN. Details
What is fracking? Talk by John Cossham, FRSA, on unconventional gas extraction and climate change. 7.30pm, Farm Road Sports and Social Club, Farm Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S2 2TP. Details
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Breaking the Chain: An exhibition about fracking by CoResist, Hamilton House Gallery, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. Details
Scottish Government debate on unconventional oil and gas. Motion by the government and amendments by Conservatives, Labour, Greens, and Lib Dems. After 2.20pm, Scottish Parliament, Holyrood, Edinburgh EH99 1SP. Details
Frack Free Bridlington and Villages public information event about fracking, from 6.30pm, Bridlington Rugby Club, Duke’s Park, Queensgate, Bridlington.
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Breaking the Chain: An exhibition about fracking by CoResist, Hamilton House Gallery, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY. Details
Start of Terrapin Training 3-day master class in shale gas development, London, Details
Women’s Call meeting, silent protest outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site, meeting 9.30am, Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton PR4 3PH. Details
Meeting of Lancashire County Council development control committee considering Cuadrilla’s application for extension of permission at the Becconsall site. 10am, Committee Room B, The Diamond Jubilee Room, County Hall, Fishergate Preston PR1 8XJ. Details
Nightmare on Fracking Street. Halloween-themed protest against INEOS Shale’s plans for shale gas exploration at Woodsetts and its interim injunction. Includes speeches from Joe Corre, who is challenging the injunction. 6pm-8pm, recreation ground, Gildingwells Road, Woodsetts,Worksop S81 8QA. Details
Thursday 26 October 2017
Date given by Third Energy in notice to North Yorkshire County Council for the start of hydraulic fracturing at Kirby Misperton.
Are We Going To Be Fracked? presentation, 7pm, Crookes Social Club, Mulehouse Road, Crookes, Sheffield S10 1TD. Details
Frack Free Ashfield Monthly Meeting, 7.30pm-9pm, Duke of Wellington, Church Street, Kirkby in Ashfield NG17 8LA.
Friday 27 October 2017
Family-friendly anti-fracking Halloween Walk with pumpkins and optional fancy dress. 10am-12 noon, from Kirby Misperton village to Third Energy’s fracking site. Details
Eckington Against Fracking Halloween Spooktacular, fancy dress competition, carved pumpkins, disco and party games, food, 7pm-10pm, Marsh Lane Community Hall, Main Road, Marsh Lane S21 5RH. Details
Saturday 28 October 2017
Zero carbon Yorkshire – make it happen. 8.45am-4.30pm, ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP. Details
United Against Fracking II day of networking, training and workshops, Bridge Street Church, Bridge Street, Leeds LS2 7QZ. Details and to register
Judging of Eckington Against Fracking Scarecrow Competition. 12 noon. See poster for 20 October
Sunday 29 October 2017
Zero carbon Yorkshire – make it happen. 8.45am-4.30pm, ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP. Details
Monday 30 October 2017
Sian Berry, London Green Party councillor is the main speaker at Green Monday event, 1pm, outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, Little Plumpton, near Blackpool PR4 3PE. Details
Demonstration organised by Frack Free Frodsham and Helsby and Frack Free Dee Coaltion at British Geological Survey event about Ince Marshes Energy Research Site, 1pm-4pm, Helsby Community Centre, Lower Robin Hood Lane, Fodsham, Warrington WA6 0BW. Details
Tuesday 31 October 2017
First day of hearing at the High Court of a challenge by Joe Corre and Joseph Boyd to INEOS Shale injunction against protest activity that interrupts its activities. 10.30am, Court 30, The Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL
Pre-inquiry meeting for re-opened inquiry into Cuadrilla’s appeal against refusal of planning permission for exploratory shale gas drilling, fracking and testing at Roseacre Wood, Lancashire. The meeting is scheduled to discuss the scope of the inquiry, its length and timetable, further information on vehicle routing to the site, consultation and assessment, and site visit. 11am, Blackpool Football Club Hotel and Conference Centre, Bloomfield Road, Seasiders Way, Blackpool FY1 6JJ. Details
Halloween at KM8, 12 noon-11pm, Third Energy’s fracking site entrance, Gt Habton Road, Kirby Misperton, N Yorkshire. Details
Coming up
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Hearing at the High Court of a challenge by Joe Corre and Joseph Boyd to INEOS Shale injunction against protest activity that interrupts its activities. 10.10am, the Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL.
Scheduled start date for trial of 10 Greenpeace protesters arrested after a lock-on protest outside Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site. Preston Magistrates Court, Lawson Street, Preston PR1 2QT. Time to be confirmed
Uniting the Roses – Women’s Call for Calm, event calling for pause in action at the front line facking sites. 10am-12noon, Third Energy’s fracking site, Habton Road, Kirby Misperton YO17 6XS. Details
White Wednesday event at Cuadrilla’s Lancashire shale gas site to be attended by Emma Thompson and Natalie Bennett, 9.30am, meet at Maple Farm, Preston New Road, Little Plumpton followed by silent walk to Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site to arrive at 11am.
Fracking: Regulation, risk and responsibility. Conference at Weightmans LLP, with speakers Gary Lynch Wood and John Pearson (University of Manchester), Elen Stokes (University of Cardiff), Alan Evans (Kings Chambers) and Estelle Dehon (Cornerstone Barristers). .1.30pm-6pm,, 3 Piccadilly Place, Manchester M1 3BN. Details
Free screening of The Bentley Effect and public meeting on UK energy and challenges ahead, hosted by Green Party MEP, Keith Taylor, with speakers Brenda Pollack (Friends of the Earth) and Chris Tomlinson (Rampion Wind Farm). 6.30pm, Quaker Meeting House, Friends Cottage, Worthing Road, Horsham, RH12 1SL. Details and to register
Thursday 2 November 2017
Energy Live Expo Live, QE2 Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE. Details
Scheduled date for publication of Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Public Attitudes Tracking Survey, Wave 23, 9.30am, gov.uk website. Details
Hearing at the High Court of a challenge by Joe Corre and Joseph Boyd to INEOS Shale injunction against protest activity that interrupts its activities. Time to be confirmed, the Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL.
Screening of The Bentley Effect and talk by Gillian Kelly about fracking, 7pm, Charnock Farm, Wigan Road, Leyland PR25 5DA. Details
Harthill Against Fracking meeting, 7.30pm, Peregrine Centre, Peregrine Way, Harthill, Sheffield S26 7UP. Details
Friday 3 November 2017
Frack Free Ravenshead public meeting with speker Dennis May, Village Hall, Vernon Crescent, Ravenshead NG15 9BN. Details
Saturday 4 November 2017
Fossil Free Futures, two-day training open to students, 10am-5pm, Leeds University Union, Lifton Place, Leeds LS2 9JZ. Details
INEOS Shale’s Woodsetts planning application – objections drop-in, organised by Woodsetts Against Fracking. 12.30pm-2.30pm, Village Hall, Gildingwells Road, Woodsetts, Worksop S81 8QB. Details
Sheffield Against Fracking information stall, 11am-4.30pm, Sheffield Peace and Craft Fair, Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Sheffield S1 2HH. Details
KM8 Trades Union Solidarity rally, organised by Unite Community. The event begins with a march starting at 12 noon, outside Kirby Misperton Village Hall, 4 Woodlands, Kirby Misperton, YO17 6XN, followed by march to Third Energy’s fracking site, Habton Road, Kirby Misperton YO17 6XS. Speakers include Cat Cray (RMT), John Coan (United
Sunday 5 November 2017
Fossil Free Futures, two-day training open to students, 10am-5pm, Leeds University Union, Lifton Place, Leeds LS2 9JZ. Details
Charter of the Forest and Fracking, event to mark the 800th anniversary of the Charter of Sherwood Forest, with speakers Professor Peter Linebaugh, Professor Guy Standing, Joe Boyd, Julie Timbrell, Mothiur Rahmen. 11.30am-5pm, Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre, Clipstone Road, Edwinstowe, Nottingham NG21 9JA. Details. Free but tickets available from Eventbrite.
Frack Off INEOS event, 1pm-4pm, INEOS Grangemouth, Bo’ness Road, Grangemouth FK3 9XH. Details
Monday 6 November 2017
INEOS Shale’s Woodsetts planning application – objections drop-in, organised by Woodsetts Against Fracking. 12.30pm-8pm, Village Hall, Gildingwells Road, Woodsetts, Worksop S81 8QB. Details
UK Environmental Law Association meeting on access to justice and Aarhus, 5.30pm, London. Details
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Scheduled start date for public inquiry into appeals by Egdon Resources against the refusals of planning permission for production at the Wressle site near Scunthorpe. 10am, Grange Farm Hobbies Centre, Wesley Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1SA.
Sheffield Against Fracking meeting, 7.30pm, Central United Reformed Church, Chapel Walk, off Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB.
Thursday 9 November 2017
Public inquiry into appeals by Egdon Resources against the refusals of planning permission for production at the Wressle site near Scunthorpe. 10am, Grange Farm Hobbies Centre, Wesley Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1SA.
Seminar on misleading advertising, morning, Advertising Standards Authority office, Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6QT. Details
Friday 10 November 2017
Public inquiry into appeals by Egdon Resources against the refusals of planning permission for production at the Wressle site near Scunthorpe. 10am, Grange Farm Hobbies Centre, Wesley Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1SA.
Sunday 12 November 2017
Know your rights training with Netpol, 2.30pm, Kirby Misperton Protection Camp, Kirby Misperton Road, Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire. Details
Monday 13 November 2017
Public inquiry into appeals by Egdon Resources against the refusals of planning permission for production at the Wressle site near Scunthorpe. 10am, Grange Farm Hobbies Centre, Wesley Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1SA.
Scheduled start date for trial of 13 people who took part in a lock-on protest outside Cuadrlla’s shale gas site on Preston New Road on 3 July, at the start of the Rolling Resistance, coordinated by Reclaim the Power. Date and venue to be confirmed.
Tuesday 14 November 2017
Public inquiry into appeals by Egdon Resources against the refusals of planning permission for production at the Wressle site near Scunthorpe. 10am, Grange Farm Hobbies Centre, Wesley Road, Scunthorpe DN16 1SA.
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Dangers of fracking and nuclear risks, public meeting hosted by Keep East Lancashire Frack Free. 7pm-9.15pm, Central Methodist Hall, Hargreaves Street, Burnley BB1 1DU. Details
Friday 17 November 2017
Closing date for comments on application by Cuadrilla Resources Ltd (WSCC/040/17/BA) to West Sussex County Council to extend permission for flow testing at lateral borehole at Lower Stumble hydrocarbon exploration site, London Road, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 6JH. Details
Saturday 18 November 2017
Health effects of fracking day, 7am-7pm, outside Third Energy’s fracking site, Great Habton Road, Kirby Misperton North Yorkshire. Details
Community strategy conversation for a frack free Lancashire – meeting 2, 5pm, Holy Trinity Church, South Shore, Blackpool, FY4 1BP. Details and to register
United Against Fracking, Ellesmere Port Rally, with speakers MPs Justin Madders, Chris Matheson, Mike Amesbury and Rebecca Long-Bailey (Shadow Energy Minister), 1pm, Civic Square, Ellesmere Port CH65 0BG. Details
Monday 20 November 2017
Film screening of The Bentley Effect, organised by Chesterfield Climate Alliance and Chesterfield TUC, 7pm, Chesterfield Library, Beetwell Street, Chesterfield S40 1QR. Details
Sheffield Friends of the Earth meeting, 7.30pm-9.30pm, The Red Deer, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield S1 4DD. Details
Tuesday 21 November 2017
An audience with the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, 10am, Voluntary Action Rotherham, The Spectrum, Coke Hill, Rotherham, S60 2HX. To book a place, phone Sarah Kelly on 01709 834467 or email sarah.kelly@varotherham.org.uk Details
Thursday 23rd November
Special planning board meeting to determine INEOS’s planning application for Harthill, 9am, Rotherham Town Hall, The Crofts, Moorgate Street, Rotherham S60 2TH. Details
Are We Going to be Fracked? Presentation, time to be confirmed, Doncaster Momentum, Catholic Club, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BY. Details
Friday 24 November 2017
Annual general meeting of Keep Kirdford and Wisborough Green, including illustrated talk by Dr Damien Short, 6.30pm, Wisborough Green Parish Hall, School Road, Wisborough Green RH14 0DU
Monday 4 December 2017
Scheduled meeting of Derbyshire County Council planning committee at which INEOS application for exploratory shale gas drilling at Bramleymoor Lane, Marsh Lane, could be discussed. 10am, Committee Room 1, County Hall, Matlock DE4 3AG. To be confirmed. Link to committee agendas
Tuesday 5 December 2017
Frack Free Yeovil Yule Bingo, 7pm, YESS Club, Legion Road, Yeovil, BA21 3AX. Details
Thursday 7 December 2017
Debate: Does fracking have a role to play in England’s energy mix, with speakers Tom Pickering, of INEOS, and David Kesteven, of Eckington Against Fracking, chaired by North East Derbyshire MP, Lee Rowley, 7.30pm, Eckington Civic Centre, Market Street, Eckington S21 4JG. Details and Eventbrite booking
Wednesday 10 January 2018
Possible date for decision on Cuadrilla Resources Ltd application WSCC/040/17/BA) to West Sussex County Council to extend permission for flow testing at lateral borehole at Lower Stumble hydrocarbon exploration site, London Road, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 6JH. Not confirmed. Details
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Possible date for decision on Cuadrilla Resources Ltd application WSCC/040/17/BA) to West Sussex County Council to extend permission for flow testing at lateral borehole at Lower Stumble hydrocarbon exploration site, London Road, Balcombe, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 6JH. Not confirmed. Details
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Scheduled date for reopening of public inquiry on traffic issues at Cuadrilla’s proposed shale gas site Roseacre Wood. 10am, Blackpool Football Club, Bloomfield Road, Seasiders Way, Blackpool FY1 6JJ. The inquiry is expected to last eight days and will sit Tuesday-Fridays. Details
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