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Extractive industries Raising awareness of the devastating effects of extractive industries on environments, communities and the climate

Battle to resist fracking in UK heats up in Lancashire

4 July 2018

For the past 7 years, residents of Lancashire in North West England, supported by allies from across the UK and Europe, have led a remarkable campaign to protect their communities from fracking. Local businesses, health groups, trade unions and others have joined them.

England, Wales and Northern Ireland

2 June 2018

After decades of neglect, it’s time to clean up Ogoniland’s oil pollution

Today, Nigerian and international civil society organisations repeated their call for the immediate start of the long overdue clean-up of oil pollution in Ogoniland in Nigeria's Niger Delta. This should be undertaken in line with recommendations made by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in its landmark 2011 study of the region.

29 May 2018

Is Ireland about to ban drilling for oil and gas?

New podcast

In this latest episode of our 'Real World Radio Europe' podcast, we follow the remarkable progress of the fossil free campaign in Ireland.

Ireland

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Friends of the Earth Europe works to prevent the extractive industries from destroying people's lives, the environment and the climate. We believe that resources should be utilised fairly and sustainably. Enforceable rules and practices are required to ensure that natural resources are a blessing, not a curse.

We are working to create the much-needed, fair and urgent transition to a fossil fuel free Europe by 2030 - dismantling the fossil fuel system and creating the just, clean energy future that people want and need.

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26 Jul 2018

Ten Steps to a Fossil Free Europe - booklet

30 May 2018

MythCat - Debunking the glory of the MidCat gas pipeline between France and Spain

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- Climate justice
  Genuine, just solutions to climate change
- Energy savings
  Less is more: reducing energy consumption for a safer planet and better homes
- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Fossil Free Europe
  Delivering a just transition to a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030
- Renewable energy
  Creating a future powered by clean, fossil-free, community owned energy

- Corporate accountability
  Making companies accountable for harm they cause anywhere in the world
- Corporate capture
  When EU and international policy-making is overly influenced by business and interest groups
- Deregulation
  The weakening of vital protections to please big business
- Trade
  EU trade and investment policy should start to put people before profit

- Banking regulation
  Getting banks to take responsibility for social and environmental risks
- Fossil Free Europe
  Delivering a just transition to a 100% renewable, no nuclear, super energy-efficient, zero-fossil-fuel Europe by 2030
- Sustainable EU funds
  EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe

- Agriculture
  Food and farming in Europe and its global impacts
- GMOs
  Genetically modified crops and organisms
- Nature
  Standing up for our right to nature
- Trade
  EU trade and investment policy should start to put people before profit

- Extractive industries
  Oil and gas exploration, and mining
- Materials and waste
  Rethinking plastic, and reducing, reusing and recycling resources
- Resource justice
  Europe’s consumption of land, materials, water and carbon

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