Press release: All day event; expert speakers and election hustings

Frack Free Greater Manchester is holding an all day event “Fracking and Climate Change” in the John Tocher Room of Manchester Mechanics Institute on Saturday 10 May from 11AM. Free entry, open to all.

There will be expert speakers from 11AM including Dr Maria Sharmina of the Tyndall Centre and Jonathan Neale of the Campaign Against Climate Change.

From 2PM there will a hustings with a panel consisting of;

Peter Cranie – Green Party
Afzal Khan – Labour Party
Victor Chamberlain – Liberal Democrat
Stephen Hall – Wigan Left Unity
Matt Kilsby – Socialist Coalition

Judy Paskell of Frack Free Greater Manchester said “Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity and fracking is an issue which tests whether politicians are serious about tackling it. Direct action is important, but we also need to hold our elected representatives to account. Are they happy to subsidise fracking and so prolong our addiction to fossil fuels? Or are they for leaving the gas in the ground and developing  renewable energy sources like wind and solar which can help us avoid runaway climate change?”