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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Support Slaithwaite Moor community wind farm

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20th Dec 2013

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 …

Government fails communities on fracking – email Eric Pickles today!

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17th Dec 2013

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 …

Petition to: oppose fracking and the extraction of unconventional gas (Salford)

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25th Nov 2013

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.

Will you sign Ali’s letter?

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16th Oct 2013

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 …

Government fails to protect communities from fracking – raise your concerns with the Secretary of State

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31st Aug 2013

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.

Demand an end to food for fuel – please write to your MEP before 10th July

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8th Jul 2013

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 …

Let’s get the right planning guidance for fracking

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7th Jul 2013

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.

Is your pension inflating the carbon bubble?

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12th Jun 2013

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.

Help end cold homes – please sign our petition

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3rd May 2013

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 …

Camp Frack 2 – NO to Fracking. YES to One Million Climate Jobs

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14th Apr 2013

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.

Email action: Invite your MP to a Fracking/Climate Change meeting at Parliament on 23rd April

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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).

Will you support Earth Hour? Saturday 23rd March, 8.30pm

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17th Mar 2013

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 …

EDF's legal threat could threaten us all

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27th Feb 2013

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)

Target clean power now.

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26th Feb 2013

As MPs debate the new Energy Bill, now’s the chance to take a giant step to tackle climate change.

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