Fossil-free Islington against #fracked #fracking
Here’s an evening event in the Fossil-Free week on 2018-10-08:
Fossil-free Islington anti-fracking event: our-borough-our-planet
Here’s an evening event in the Fossil-Free week on 2018-10-08:
Fossil-free Islington anti-fracking event: our-borough-our-planet
Who else is thinking of going along to this? It’s on a Monday, awkwardly. Let me know if you hear of a weekend event.
http://act.350.org/event/let-communities-decide-action/15900/
Base site: https://gofossilfree.org/uk/let-communities-decide/
My reply to Richard Watts, Mayor of LB Islington, about
Frack-free Islington (his email to me)
Dear Richard
thank you for your comprehensive reply.
I wouldn’t completely ignore the chances of companies wanting to frack under London – there have already been applications (turned down fortunately):
I’m glad that my council (LB Islington in case you wondered) is making progress in the move away from climate-damaging energy – however despite your optimism about the pension fund, it seems there is still much to be done there. The latest figures published by gofossilfree.org shows some fairly sobering facts:
Total fund size: £1,262,711,448
Total fracking investments: £31,313,047
Direct investments: £25,946,752
Estimated indirect investments: £5,366,295
% Invested in fracking: 2.48%
Top fracking investments
BP — £10,289,723
Shell — £10,186,874
BHP Billiton — £3,196,183
ConocoPhillips — £2,273,972(from https://gofossilfree.org/uk/divest-fracking/ )
What chance is there of more progress on the divestment front?
In reply, Richard Watts mentioned: “The Council has asked its Pension Fund Advisers to pull together all our options for reducing the Fund’s carbon footprint so that they can be discussed in public at the December Meeting of the Council’s Pension Fund. I hope this helps to address your concerns.”
A step in the right direction.
Sue Lees 9:11 am on October 8, 2018 Permalink |
Further details about this as it is today! And the IPCC says that we have only 12 years left in which to keep the earth’s temperature to plus 1.5 degrees C and keep the planet liveable. Otherwise dreadful weather and climate consequences will be unstoppable. Get cracking, politicians!
Fossil Free Islington is hosting an Our Borough, Our Planet event at Islington Town Hall on 8th October from 6.30-8.30pm.
The aim is to bring together environmental groups and individuals from around Islington to create a joint vision for a sustainable borough. The stated aim is to boost the great things that are already happening, strengthen existing campaigns and projects and make new plans which may include projects to drastically reduce plastic or emissions with a roadmap for the council’s zero-carbon target – whatever people agree on the night. If you are interested in attending, you can sign up here: http://www.tinyurl.com/IslingtonOBOP
Adam Hardy 9:21 am on October 8, 2018 Permalink |
See you there?