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Camp Frack 2

Hundreds say No to Fracking at Camp Frack 2

Despite rough weather conditions, hundreds of protesters attended Camp Frack 2 at Mere Brow in Lancashire last weekend to demonstrate their opposition to fracking and support for climate jobs.

Organised by a coalition of local and national anti-fracking, Trades Union, and environmental groups including Campaign against Climate Change, Camp Frack 2 brought people together from across the country to demonstrate a unified front and share campaign strategies against hydraulic fracturing. 

The weekend involved talks, presentations, workshops and a protest action which brought together hundreds of local and national activists.

Press coverage of the camp:
 
 
 
Lancashire Evening Post - Hundreds take part in anti-fracking camp

Blackpool Gazette - Campaigners at fracking event


In September 2011 Campaign against Climate Change, REAF and other climate groups organised Camp Frack (1) to protest against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas. Out of this camp the group Frack Off came into existance.
 
Since then the anti-fracking movement in the UK has grown, with more and more local groups resisting plans for this dangerous and extreme method of energy extraction. 
 
Cuadrilla (the drilling company that operates the site in Lancashire) has now suspended its activity in Westby (Lancashire) forced to wait for an environmental assessment. However it has announced plans to drill in Balcombe (Sussex); maybe we need to make plans for a camp frack 3...
 
 

Confronting the Climate Crisis Conference

An event bringing together climate scientists, trade unionists and environmental activists

Saturday June 8th 11.00-17.00

London Metropolitan University, Stapleton House, 277 Holloway Road, London, N7 8HN

As part of the One Million Climate Jobs initiative the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union group is holding a conference bringing together climate scientists, politicians, trade unionists & environmental activists.

The conference brings together a top line-up of speakers at a time when climate change is becoming ever more relevant:

  • The keynote speaker with be Professor Kevin Anderson, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, one of the world’s leading – and most radical – experts on climate change.

There will be an international session which will include contributions from Norway, South Africa, America and the Canadian indigenous movement.

The conference will stage a variety of workshops including some on the melting Arctic and our weird weather, led by experts in their field.

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