Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Tell Barclays to stop fracking in North Yorkshire

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2nd Nov 2015

This morning, a group of us took to the streets of Manchester to send Barclays Bank a message that it’s not acceptable for them to be financing fracking in North Yorkshire.

We can stop the Government’s latest fracking offensive

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4th Oct 2015

At the beginning of the summer, we kicked fracking out of Lancashire (main picture). But the frackers are back, trying their luck in Yorkshire and elsewhere. And Government is trying to make it even easier for them by allowing fracking …

Help Fergal #Save Our Solar

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30th Sep 2015

I’m Fergal. I chose to re-train in the solar industry to make a positive difference to climate change. Now I urgently need your help.

Call for divestment from fossil fuels

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31st Aug 2015

The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is the biggest local authority pension fund in the country. It is also one of the biggest investors in fossil fuels, with over £1 billion invested in companies like Shell and BP. Not only are coal, oil and …

Is the Government sticking two fingers up to everyone fighting climate change?

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1st Aug 2015

Catastrophic assault on UK environment Clean energy hit with tax used to penalise polluting power plants Fracking to be allowed in precious wildlife sites Renewables told to go it alone. Nuclear, oil & gas soak up billions of subsidies Hybrid …

Switch to Good Energy and help support Friends of the Earth

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18th Jul 2015

Friends of the Earth have been working with 100% renewable electricity supplier Good Energy for 10 years. This year they directly supported our environmental education festival Basecamp. In celebration of this we are asking you, the FoE supporters, to make …

Election manifestos. Will they be good for people and the planet?

climate

14th Apr 2015

As the main parties prepare to publish their manifestos, it’s time to set out what we’ll be looking for.

Sharknado and solar energy: how are they linked?

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Remember 2014? One Direction were still a five piece, Sharknado 2 had just come out at the movies, Michael Gove was still education minister and the Department for Energy had big ideas for solar power. It was a heady time.

Do you have what it takes to be a Climate Organiser?

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7th Apr 2015

We need a climate movement strong enough, broad enough and diverse enough to stop climate change. We’d like you to help us build it.

Speaking up for wind power – does it work?

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20th Feb 2015

In spite of the odds, wind power is going from strength to strength – which is why it has never been more important for local people to speak out and back projects if we want to do our bit to …

URGENT: Ask your MP to back fracking moratorium

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24th Jan 2015

On Monday, MPs will be voting on a series of amendments to the Infrastructure Bill, including one to introduce a moratorium on fracking.

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