Sport urged to drop high-carbon sponsors
Sport teams and events have been urged to give up sponsorship from companies that promote high carbon products, services and lifestyles.
Updated picture post: Protests against Team Ineos at Tour de Yorkshire
2 May 2019: Stage 1 Doncaster-Selby Members of Team Ineos were cheered and jeered at the start of the Tour de Yorkshire this morning.
May 2019 headlines
This month sees the release of official advice to government on climate change targets and the latest public attitude data on fracking. Rathlin Energy continues to drill its second well at West Newton and Lancashire residents wait to see what happens at Cuadrilla’s fracking site. Ineos is likely […]
Preparations underway for Tour de Yorkshire and four days of anti-fracking protests
As Sir Jim Ratcliffe unveiled the new cycling kit for Team Ineos in advance of tomorrow’s Tour de Yorkshire, campaigners were making their final preparations to demonstrate that his fracking company was not welcome in the county. Local anti-fracking groups had originally ordered 10,000 Jim Ratcliffe masks to […]
Events diary – May 2019 and beyond
Events in May 2019 and beyond about UK fracking, onshore oil and gas and campaigning.
Guest post: Pedalling the PEDLs
As Ineos prepares to launch its sponsorship of Britain’s leading cycling team at next week’s Tour de Yorkshire, an opponent of the company’s fracking plans reports on his own ride through the region’s shale gas licences.
Picture post: Cyclists complete two-day “tour de frack” between shale sites
A group of cyclists completed a 120-mile ride this afternoon between sites in Lancashire and Yorkshire where fracking is due to take place.
