Local residents in West Yorkshire want to generate clean, renewable energy – but they need your help to persuade Kirklees Council to approve their plans. Valley Wind is a group of residents who want to build three wind turbines in …
Earlier this year the Government published guidance on how and where companies could drill for oil and gas. What’s surprising is that they chose not to consult the public. We’ve spoken to the Government about this but they’re not listening …
Do you live, work or study in Salford? If so, please sign and share our petition calling on Salford council to say no to fracking.
Friends of the Earth supporter, Manchester Local Group member, and award-winning community campaigner Ali Abbas is passionate about finding a solution to our energy crisis. He wants the Government to introduce a ‘clean power target’ that would slash the carbon …
Communities left on the side-lines – not protected or consulted about the threat of fracking. Following the release of the new planning guidance on fracking it’s clear that the Government is paying little attention to communities.
European targets for biofuels made from food crops drive deforestation and hunger. We must change this now. A continued policy of high subsidies and targets will cause EU biofuel consumption to double by 2020. The idea was to reduce the …
Fracking for shale gas is one of the most controversial environmental issues facing the UK. The process involves drilling a well into rock formations thousands of metres below the Earth’s surface.
Pension providers are supposed to look after your savings. But are they investing them in fossil fuels? We’ve teamed up with ShareAction to call on pension providers to come clean about their high carbon investments.
Five million UK households live in fuel poverty – they cannot afford to keep their homes warm. Cold homes have been linked to the death of 7,000 older people each year, and higher rates of asthma and mental illness in …
A weekend of activity in opposition to fracking & other forms of extreme energy as well as in support of the fight Against Unemployment, Austerity and the Growing Threat of Climate Change.
Please ask your Member of Parliament (M.P) to attend an important Fracking and Climate Change presentation at the House of Commons co-organised by Friends of the Earth and the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG).
WWF’s Earth Hour is a unique annual phenomenon that focuses the world’s attention on our amazing planet, and how we need to protect it. At 8.30pm on 23 March hundreds of millions of people will turn off their lights for …
Like so many others last October, I was incredibly impressed by the campaigners from No Dash for Gas who spent a week occupying EDF’s new West Burton gas-fired power station in Nottinghamshire. (Neil Kingsnorth, Head of Activism, Friends of the Earth)
As MPs debate the new Energy Bill, now’s the chance to take a giant step to tackle climate change.
