Frack Free Lancashire representatives were invited to take part in a Climate Listening Event with Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday 8 March, in Birmingham. Last week, Keir Starmer published a piece in the Guardian: “We can’t wait until 2024 to tackle the climate crisis – let’s fight for a
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Frack Free Lancashire strongly condemns an eviction that occurred at New Hope Camp on Tuesday 19 November 2019. Shortly after 06.30hrs this morning, a private bailiff company – Able Enforcements, in collusion with Lancashire Constabulary and a local construction/demolition firm, Pete Marquis, who has regularly sought to
Read more →The following letter has been sent by two local doctors (Dr Barbara Kneale and Dr Frank Rugman) to Public Health England.
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The following letter was published as a shorter version in The Times Letters on 20 Janaury 2019, in response to an interview with Francis Egan, CEO of Cuadrilla Resources Ltd, dated 13 January 2019. Dear Sir, We write in response to The Times interview with Francis
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IMPORTANT We have had an official statement from the Planning Inspectorate to say the Planning Inspector, Mr Melvyn Middleton, submitted his report, on the Roseacre Wood appeal, to the Secretary of State on 28th September 2018. A decision is likely early in the New Year. This is
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Frack Free Lancashire PRESS RELEASE 26 April 2018 LATEST GOVERNMENT POLLING SHOWS OPPOSITION TO FRACKING REMAINS MUCH HIGHER THAN SUPPORT Today saw the release of the government’s latest Energy and Climate Change Public Attitudes Tracker: Wave 25 – a BEIS research report into public attitudes on energy
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The following letter from a local doctor is an extremely good summary of the issues relating to fracking sites and set back distances. We trust that the officers at our County Council will pay it due regard. Planning Officer, Lancashire County Council 25 April 2018 Dear Mr
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PRESS RELEASE Second Cuadrilla Public Planning Inquiry to Start in Lancashire On behalf of Roseacre Awareness Group, Frack Free Lancashire and Central Lancashire Friends of the Earth Thursday 5 April 2018 For immediate release *Photo opportunity 09.00hrs on Tuesday 10 April 2018, outside Blackpool
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Earlier this month saw the fifth publication of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking by Concerned Health Professionals of New York and the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group, Physicians for Social Responsibility. Their conclusion was simple: “Our examination…uncovered no evidence that fracking can
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This video from Heart shows the marvelous positivity that permeates this movement. Come and join us for the United Resistance! Actress Emma Thompson dancing with fracking protectors at the Cuadrilla site in Fylde #HeartNews pic.twitter.com/qpvxuWpI2Z — North West News (@HeartNWNews) March 21, 2018
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