POSTS ARCHIVE
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.
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Support Slaithwaite Moor community wind farm
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 … Continue reading
20th Dec 2013
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Government fails communities on fracking – email Eric Pickles today!
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 … Continue reading
17th Dec 2013
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Petition to: oppose fracking and the extraction of unconventional gas (Salford)
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.
25th Nov 2013
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Will you sign Ali’s letter?
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 … Continue reading
16th Oct 2013
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Government fails to protect communities from fracking – raise your concerns with the Secretary of State
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.
31st Aug 2013
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Demand an end to food for fuel – please write to your MEP before 10th July
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 … Continue reading
8th Jul 2013
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Let’s get the right planning guidance for fracking
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.
7th Jul 2013
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Is your pension inflating the carbon bubble?
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.
12th Jun 2013
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Help end cold homes – please sign our petition
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 … Continue reading
3rd May 2013
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Camp Frack 2 – NO to Fracking. YES to One Million Climate Jobs
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.
14th Apr 2013
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Email action: Invite your MP to a Fracking/Climate Change meeting at Parliament on 23rd April
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).
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Will you support Earth Hour? Saturday 23rd March, 8.30pm
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 … Continue reading
17th Mar 2013
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EDF's legal threat could threaten us all
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)
27th Feb 2013
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Target clean power now.
As MPs debate the new Energy Bill, now’s the chance to take a giant step to tackle climate change.
26th Feb 2013
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