SALFORD TURNS GREENER Support for green politics and a greener, more environmentally friendly way of life is growing in Salford as the country enters, potentially, one of it’s most politically intriguing times On Sunday, around 300 people gathered at Barton Moss for an open air tea party to celebrate no fracking activity happening there at the moment, to once again re-iterate to IGas that there is no social license for fracking and to celebrate the news of a Labour Council (Newcastle) banning fracking This event is one of a large number of anti-fracking Solidarity Sunday events that have happened at Barton Moss during 2014 as local people say no to fracking in a grassroots, festival-style, carnival atmosphere, some events attracting over 2000 people, despite limited media coverage and support Local people have been the driving force of these events, as well as a survey that found 80% of respondents wanting the area to remain frack free, and have also compiled a Public Consultation Report on local opinion to fracking Last week, a packed room at Irlam Steel, including Bez from Salford band The Happy Mondays, whose new Reality Party has the environment central to it’s politics, heard speakers from renewable energy companies and community energy projects tell how community energy projects are growing in popularity all over the country and gave facts and tips on how local people might be able to start their own grassroots, renewable energy co-operatives Also, a delegation of Salfordians was at the Green Party Conference from the 5th-8th September in Birmingham to witness speeches from Leader Natalie Bennett, new deputy leader Amelia Womack, MP Caroline Lucas & a host of speakers on subjects as varied as the economy, the NHS, the minimum wage, TTIP and Scottish independence as the party makes a move into mainstream politics, with polls showing the Green Party higher than the coalition governments’ Liberal Democrats and that the policies of the Green Party are receiving more and more popular support The next Irlam & Cadishead Frack Free meeting is at The Nags Head at 7pm on Thursday 11th September, planning for the Manchester Peoples Climate March on Sunday 21st September, where thousands of people are expected to take part in a lobby of the Labour Party Conference, demanding that the Labour Party signs up to a national fracking ban and the One Million Climate Jobs Now campaign The Manchester event is one of a number of Peoples Climate Marches around the globe, including New York, Berlin, Paris, Dehli, London, Rio & Melbourne on 21st September 2014, and is designed to target a message to the New York Climate Change Summit to demand urgent and ambitious climate action Celebrities backing the People’s Climate March include model Helena Christensen, musician Peter Gabriel, actress Susan Sarandon, actor Edward Norton and footballer Lionel Messi theguardian/environment/2014/sep/08/activists-promise-biggest-climate-march-in-history
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:05:55 +0000
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