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Press Releases Found: 242International Civil Society Groups Ask the European Parliament to Support the Human Right to Water
More than forty civil society organisations from all over the world sent a letter today to Members of the European Parliament encouraging them to support the Human Right to Water in the vote on the Directive on the Quality of Water for Human Consumption.
Cuadrilla Performs First Fracking Operation in the UK Since Destructive Fracking-Induced Tremors in 2011
“Today’s first fracking operation in the UK in over seven years illustrates the UK government is heading in the completely wrong direction on climate change, while denying the rights of affected communities,” says Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Europe and Food & Water Watch.
This is the Global Gasdown-Frackdown 2018: Thousands taking actions in over 50 cities
On and around October 13th, over 90 groups from six continents came together in a united fight against the gas, fracking and plastics/petrochemicals industry for the Global Gasdown-Frackdown Day of Action.
Over a thousand people took action across North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
Miles de personas participan en acciones en más de 50 ciudades en el Global Gasdown-Frackdown 2018
Alrededor del 13 octubre, más de 90 grupos de seis continentes participarán en el Día Global de Acción Gasdown-Frackdown, mostrando una lucha unida contra la industria del gas, del fracking y petroquímica.
COMUNIDADES DE SEIS CONTINENTES SE MOVILIZAN CONTRA EL GAS Y EL FRACKING
Alrededor del 13 octubre, más de 80 grupos de seis continentes participarán en el Día Global de Acción Gasdown-Frackdown, mostrando una lucha unitaria contra la industria del gas, del fracking y petroquímica.
Se están organizando docenas de acciones en Norteamérica, América del Sur, África, Europa, Asia y Oceanía.
COMMUNITIES FROM SIX CONTINENTS TAKE ACTION AGAINST GAS AND FRACKING
On and around October 13th, over 80 groups from six continents will stand together in a united fight against the gas, fracking and plastics/petrochemicals industry for the Global Gasdown-Frackdown Day of Action.
Dozens of actions are planned across North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
COMUNIDADES DE SEIS CONTINENTES SE MOVILIZAN CONTRA EL GAS Y EL FRACKING
El Gasdown-Frackdown conecta luchas internacionales contra el gas y el fracking, incluyendo una acción de victimas de lodos tóxicos originados por extracción de gas en Indonesia, una manifestación en Australia Occidental, teatro callejero en Ámsterdam, una manifestación en Nigeria, un webinario sobre los impactos sobre la salud de la producción de gas y un carnaval anti-fracking en Reino Unido
Groups Across Europe Call for Alternative Gas Conference to Address Participation Obstacles
Together with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Food & Water Europe, CounterBalance, PowerShift, Corporate Europe Observatory and Friends of the Earth Europe organized two conferences in Brussels dealing with the issues around gas in 2016 and 2017. In both years, participants from the Global South faced serious obstacles which finally led to a number of persons […]
Shannon Estuary Import Terminal for US Fracked Gas Would Lock Ireland and EU into Fossil Fuels for Decades
An international coalition of campaign groups is opposing Shannon LNG on the grounds that it not only threatens people’s health, the local environment and tourism, but would also drag Ireland and Europe away from renewable energy and leave Ireland facing ever bigger EU fines for missing our climate change commitments.
Planning Permission Extension for Fracked US LNG Import Terminal Threatens Ireland’s Climate Obligations and Dolphins in the Shannon Estuary
Ireland banned fracking but a company named Sambolo Resources wants to open one of Europe’s biggest projects to process fracked US gas from Trump’s America in the Shannon Estuary nature reserve where whales and dolphins swim. At the same time, environmental groups as well as the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) challenged a Department of Energy-funded study that concludes U.S. economic growth would be boosted by unlimited LNG exports.