Two anti-fracking campaigners lie down in road to prevent access at AE Yates, Lostock Industrial Estate

Earth First! Winter Moot 24-26 February 2017, Manchester - plot and plan for ecological direct action.

“Mining is going on a hundred meters away. When they started blasting, all the dust was brought to our vegetable gardens. Vegetables got covered with the coal dust which is impossible to wash out. Now I don‘t want to harm myself by eating anything from this garden,” a resident of Kazas, Siberia, Russia, describes the impact of coal mining.

Earth First! Summer Gathering! - 17th-22nd Aug - The address is: The Limes, Milton Rd, Gayton,Northampton NN7 3HE.

For workshop programme and directions etc. see: http://earthfirstgathering.org/

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Governments have failed to deliver what is needed.

12th January 2017 - bailiffs and police have moved in at Upton Community Protection camp, in Cheshire. 

The government’s grand gesture of ‘closing coal’ is conditional on replacing it with gas. Fracking is a key part of that vision, but it’s meeting with resistance at every step.