Labour comes out swinging on fracking in Balcombe

Posted by kcumming - 22 August 2013 at 2:33pm - Comments

Freshly delivered into letterboxes in Balcombe - a strongly worded (bordering on downright anti-) fracking leaflet from the local Labour Party.

Green groups join forces to 'put the breaks on fracking'

Posted by kcumming - 19 August 2013 at 11:52am - Comments
Green groups logos
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Over the weekend, a cross-section of environment and conservation groups issued a joint call to Government to put the brakes on fracking. This is the first time such a large number of influential NGOs have joined together to express their concern. The joint letter was published in the Sunday Times.

Sympathy for the revel - Glastonbury 2013

Posted by kcumming - 5 July 2013 at 4:07pm - Comments

It’s not every day we trump the Rolling Stones. But more than once at Glastonbury 2013, I overheard people pointing to the Greenpeace field and saying “that’s been my favourite thing at the festival”.

We're fracking George Osborne's village green!

Posted by kcumming - 4 March 2013 at 12:50pm - Comments

Under the guise of newly-formed fracking company Frack & Go, we've arrived en masse in the picturesque town of Knutsford in George Osborne’s Tatton constituency, to give local people a taste of what might happen if George gets his dash for gas and fracking goes ahead locally.

The Battle for Britain has begun.

Posted by kcumming - 12 February 2013 at 4:15pm - Comments
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Was it when Chancellor George Osborne called us the environmental Taliban? When he announced he wanted to build 40 new gas-fired power stations and turn the UK into a “gas hub”? When he was revealed in our undercover investigation as trying to dismantle the Climate Change Act? When he rolled out the red carpet for fracking companies across England? Or when he vetoed a 2030 goal in the Energy Bill for carbon free electricity?

Balls well that ends well

Posted by kcumming - 26 November 2012 at 2:28pm - Comments
John Sauven and Ed Balls at Eclipse Energy
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left to right: Eclipse Managing Director Chris Cash, Ed Balls and John Sauven

Friday was a brave day for Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to hug a solar panel. Britain had awoken to the - albeit sensationalist and misleading - headline news that households could be paying £170 a year by 2020 to fund renewable energy projects. (The reality being nearly half that cost and overall savings if we get our act together on energy efficiency). But Ed Balls, MP for Morley and Outwood, pulled up to renewable installation company Eclipse Energy in Leeds enthusiastic, engaged and ready to – literally - embrace clean energy.

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