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Why cold homes are a climate justice issue
The transition away from fossil fuels is a chance to transform our energy system to work for the public and improves our lives.
Rochana Sheward departs as Director
Rochana will be stepping down from the Director role, with their final day being 13 March.
Why I’ve been knitting to stop a power station
Taking action, one stitch at a time
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Inquiry day 6 – Cultural heritage and climate change
Today Concerned Communities of Falkirk got the opportunity to put Cultural Heritage, from participation to community values, in front of the Inquiry. Input ranged from a very personal account of…
Inquiry day 5 – frogs and toxic rain
Today was the first day at Falkirk Stadium, rather more cramped than last week’s venue, but with much more reasonable prices for tea … Today’s special session took video evidence…
Inquiry day 4 – big beasts
We started the day with Dart’s witness on leaking methane saying that you can never get two geologists to agree. One of the undercurrents over many months has been the…
Inquiry day 3 – Geology and Punk Rock
After 15 hours over two and half days of Dart’s witnesses we finally got to hear from a witness from the objectors, Emeritus Prof David Smythe from Glasgow University. He…
Inquiry day 2 – slow and careful …
Today was a slow day of carefully and thoroughly picking over lots of details about geology and hydrology from Dart’s witnesses, who had a pretty painful time. So slow that…
Dart Energy public inquiry opens
Protestors with placards welcomed the parties and witnesses to the Public Local Inquiry into Dart Energy’s proposals for Coal Bed Methane this morning at the Inchyra Hotel (lovely view of…
Taking Over Berlin’s Energy Supply
Guest Blog: Dr Stefan Taschner (campaigner from Berliner Energietisch) The story of the following referendum already began two and a half years ago in 2011 with the formation of the…
Our 35th birthday!
Birthday celebrations are happening today, as Scotland’s leading environmental campaign group mark their 35th anniversary. Ensuring justice for people and the environment has been the main objective of Friends of…
From the front-line of anti-shale gas struggles – Guest blog
Antoine Simon and David Heller from Friends of the Earth Europe, travelled to the village of Pungeşti in Romania this weekend to observe and document the village’s resistance to shale…
