Over the past few weeks, we’ve been out and about in Trafford chatting to local residents about the dangers of fracking.
This is a fantastic opportunity, so we’re really keen to reach as many primary schools as possible. Please get involved and nominate a school to run on sun.
Let our new infographic walk you through the numbers. Friends of the Earth calculates that schools could each save up to £8,000 per year through solar panels. This means more money to spend on facilities like playgrounds and nature gardens.
Barbara Keeley MP (Worsley & Eccles South) is hosting a parliamentary meeting – ‘Fracking and impacts on public health and environment – lessons from Australia’ on Wednesday 4th June.
Over 3,000 local people in Salford have signed a petition opposing fracking and unconventional gas in the area. But despite strong public opinion, Salford City Council refuses to discuss the petition.
The application from IGas for a renewal of their planning permission for coal bed methane extraction and production (for 25 years!) in Davyhulme is with Trafford council. The planning officer is recommending that it be approved by the Council. It has …
The Government is holding a consultation on the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) into the granting of new licenses for onshore oil and gas exploration. As part of the SEA it has to produce an Environmental Report and put this out …
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 Saturday 29th March hundreds of millions of people will turn off their lights …
Yes mate! We’re avin’ a party! A solidarity day with a difference. Join us at Barton Moss Community Protection Camp for a fun carnival of resistance. Fighting fracking Salford style.
How can we expect political parties to face up to the reality of climate change whilst accepting funding from those who profit from destroying the climate?
Friends of the Earth have teamed up with gold-standard green suppliers Ecotricity and Good Energy to make switching easy.
Last winter a person died every six minutes from the cold. Chilling. That’s 31,000 British deaths, many of them preventable. Thousands agree this is unacceptable, but does your MP?
The Government is worried. Despite its strong support for fracking, local opposition just keeps on growing. Today David Cameron announced he’s going “all out for shale”, offering yet more money to councils as a sweetener to accept this dirty fossil …
