Press Release: Launch of One Million Climate Jobs report in Manchester, 18th November 2014

Frack Free Greater Manchester along with the Campaign Against Climate Change will be hosting the North West of England launch of the One Million Climate jobs report at 7:15PM on Tuesday 18th November at the Friends Meeting House on Mount Street . The report shows how tackling the threat of Climate Change by improving housing …

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Press Release: Report on Barton Moss fracking protest shows urgent need for investigation into ‘Flaregate’

Frack Free Greater Manchester welcome the report by the Independent Panel on Policing and Protests, produced for the Police and Crime Commissioner of Greater Manchester, on Barton Moss anti-fracking protest, which will be published on Thursday 16 October. (1) The report correctly identifies the significance of ‘flaregate’; the allegation that protesters deliberately tried to shoot …

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Fracking North Conference

Representatives of the fracking industry, and other interested parties, were in Salford on Friday to attend Fracking North Conference, put on by Govtoday at The Lowry. This was the nearest thing to a debate about fracking Greater Manchester has seen and, although at £350 a ticket it wasn’t for the Plebs. A picket of protesters …

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“Don’t open Pandora’s box”: a message to the UK from Pennsylvania

The fracking monster has many nasty tentacles in Pennsylvania – CH4, CO2, VOC’s. NOx climate contributions , earthquakes, compressor stations, glycol dehydrators, LNG, frac sand, massive water consumption, ethane cracker plants , negative health consequences , seismic testing, toxic and radioactive waste, property and human rights issues, Halliburton loophole, pipelines, spills, leaks and explosions to …

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Press Release: Over a thousand people at Manchester People’s Climate march

Fantastic turnout in Manchester. The police guessed about a thousand people. Tina Louise from Nanas Against Fracking told of the fantastic victory they have had in getting Fylde Borough Council to oppose fracking by Cuadrilla Resources at two sites. Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party in England and Wales spoke of the need for …

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Press Release: People’s Climate March and Lobby of the Labour Party, Manchester, Sunday 21st September 2014

The People’s Climate March is expected to be the largest global demonstration on Climate Change ever (1). The Manchester march will leave Piccadilly Gardens at approximately 11:30AM led by the PCS Samba Band and will be taking the route shown in the attached map. The march will pass in front of the Midland Hotel, where …

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Blog: Frack Free Labour

‘The greenest government ever’. How David Cameron must regret those words. But if we all agreed that this government is a shade of mucky brown, who really was the Greenest Government Ever? My vote is for Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour administration. His government built on the pre-war campaign for access to the countryside that had …

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Press Release: Barton Moss Protectors vow to oppose Igas if they return

Campaigners who spent last winter camped on Barton Moss opposing test drilling by fracking company Igas met up again last week and pledged to defend the Moss if the company returns. There were nearly 200 arrests during the four month campaign, which saw daily ‘slow walks’ in front of Igas convoys as well as lock-ons …

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Press Release: People’s Climate March, Manchester, Sunday 21st September, 11AM

Frack Free Greater Manchester’s rally and lobby of the Labour Party Conference in Manchester will include a march from Piccadilly Gardens in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people expected to march through New York, London and eight other major cities to demand action on Climate Change. (1) Frack Free Greater Manchester expects the …

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Blog: What if we don’t frack?

So we win. Hasn’t happened yet, but things are going well. So what happened when we do? How do we keep the lights on, the show on the road and all the rest. This website shows us what the alternatives are.