Blimey! The Bridgend Green party blog has gone viral in the last couple of days smashing it best ‘hits’ day bt a no less than 500%. For the cynics among you that doesn’t mean achieving double figures, but well into 4 figures a day. The fracking issue is really beginning to get through to people as they begin to realise just how cynical and corrupt the frackers and their supporters truly are.

Todays hits:

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United Kingdom	1,335
United States	91
Australia	19
France	15
Ireland	13
Germany	13
India	10
Norway	9
Italy	7
Spain	7
Republic of Korea	7
Hong Kong	6
Canada	5
New Zealand	4
South Africa	4
Thailand	4
Philippines	3
Finland	3
Indonesia	2
Sweden	2
Turkey	2
Denmark	2
Mexico	2
Poland	2
Netherlands	2
Saudi Arabia	1
Senegal	1
Algeria	1
Ghana	1
Malaysia	1
Ecuador	1
United Arab Emirates	1
Barbados	1
Togo	1
Czech Republic	1
Portugal	1
Sri Lanka	1
Hungary	1
Belgium	1

Published on Jul 30, 2013
Green MEP candidate Andy Chyba joins @WorldViewShow to discuss the UK Government’s rush to frack EVERYWHERE and the weekend arrests of the Balcombe 16.

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Hi friends,
Is your money contributing to climate change? Right now, the answer is almost certainly yes — but from California to Australia, grassroots campaigns are springing up around the world to change that. We’re calling for an end to fossil fuel investments, and we need your help to grow our campaign here in Europe!
Last Thursday, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development — one of the world’s largest development banks — released a draft of its energy strategy. Despite lots of talk about a “low-carbon economy”, their strategy still includes plenty of support for projects like coal plants and fracked gas. The EBRD is run by a Board of Directors from shareholder countries across Europe, and we want to show them that people at home are watching. Will you tell the EBRD Board that it’s time stop investing in fossil fuels?
Click here (http://act.350.org/sign/EBRD/?akid=3399.539813.1nhoJS&rd=1&t=1) to sign the petition demanding that EBRD stop funding dirty fossil fuels.
The climate is changing before our eyes. If we want to keep climate change below 2° C — and have a chance at avoiding catastrophic feedback cycles and a planet potentially incompatible with human civilization — then we must keep 80% of known fossil fuel reserves under ground.
Yet pension funds continue to invest our savings in risky fossil fuel stocks, betting that we can keep burning those reserves; universities continue to accept funding (and influence) from rogue fossil fuel companies; and development banks like the EBRD keep funding new dirty energy plants, which are set to lock us into decades of emissions. Clearly we have a lot of work to do.
Will you take the first step and help us end EBRD’s support for fossil fuels?
This campaign is just the beginning. Across Europe, we’re gearing up to launch grassroots divestment campaigns targeting universities and other big institutions — because our public funds should be invested in a livable future, not an industry bent on ensuring our planet’s destruction.
I hope you’ll join us,
Tim

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http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/frack_the_desolate_north_east_says_tory_peer_30072013.html

Commenting on reports today (Tuesday 30 July 2013) that Lord Howell has called for fracking to be concentrated in the North East because of its “large, desolate and uninhabited areas”, Friends of the Earth Energy Campaigner Tony Bosworth said:

“Lord Howell’s suggestion that fracking should be concentrated in the ‘desolate’ North East is jaw-dropping.”
“But the Government’s ill-conceived fracking plans aren’t something that can be quietly brushed under the carpet ‘up north’ – as the villages resisting the drillers in the Tory heartlands of England’s south show.”
“It’s time to pull the plug on the UK’s dirty fossil fuel addiction and develop clean energy that won’t cost people all over England their green and pleasant land.”

And of course, the Tories see Wales as a bit of a wasteland too!!!

Published on Jul 29, 2013
Frack-Free Wales founder Frances Jenkins and 15 others were arrested for blocking access to Cuadrilla’s Balcombe Sussex drilling site last week. She talks about the police’s brutal over-reaction and her arrest experience exclusively on @WorldViewShow.

Our good friend and founder of Frack-Free Wales, Frances Jenkins of Taffs Well, was one of those arrested in Balcombe last Friday. This is the bare truth of a disproportionate response by the Police under the direction of who? We need to know!

Below are some photos that should appal us all, followed by Frances’ own words.

Police state?

Frances being led away:

And this is just disgusting police brutality (who gave the order to use such deliberate forms of torture?):

Take note of their numbers (CW568, CT2 and CT591) and make a complaint to:
https://secureforms.ipcc.gov.uk/Pages/form_complaint.aspx

Below is Frances’ press release issued today:

BATTLE OF BALCOMBE 29.07.2013I was arrested at Balcombe, West Sussex, UK on Friday with Justin Preece and 14 others. Contrary to popular reports in the press I am NOT a seasoned protester but a respected music teacher at Taffs Well Music Studio. I have recently been awarded an academic scholarship. I am also a philanthropist who just 9 days ago organised an event raising money for Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice in Wales. I am also the mother of two children.

I am not, as one crude newspaper claimed a “Rent-A-Mob, Squatters, Ukelele Players and Dale Farm veteran”. I am an ordinary citizen with entirely valid concerns about Cuadrilla Resources Limited’s actions in the UK because of the well-documented problems the citizens of Pennsylvania in the United States have experienced to name just one example. If you dig a little deeper than the mainstream media you will find many peer-reviewed scholarly articles documenting the dangers of methane contamination, the risk of disrupting radioactive substances, the increase of intrusive heavy plant traffic carving up village roads, increased seismic activity in the form of earthquakes…the list goes on and on.

I am proud of what we did. We do not want Fracking/Coal Bed Methane/Underground Coal Gasification in the UK. There are many far bigger countries being idiots with Shale Gas, we cannot cope with these techniques in such a built up area. If we, as the government claims, need a “transitional fuel” because of a looming “energy crisis”, then we should buy it from those already damaged countries, and not industrialize our beautiful historic countryside. Despite what we are told, we are a rich country.

We should invest ALL energy funds into renewables. This Neo-Victorian regime that rules us are acting out of pure greed, the desire to control and sheer short-sighted stupidity. There are also several damning conflicts of interest surrounding the ownership of Cuadrilla Resources Limited and I call on the David Cameron and George Osborne to address these concerns by publishing a full and frank document notifying citizens who owns what parts of Cuadrilla Resources Limited.

I hope that the powers that be will have the sense to drop the charges against the participants in this peaceful protest. I also call for the prosecution of the officers CT2, CW568 and CT591 for assault and I will be complaining to the IPCC about the inappropriate response from Sussex Police.

Finally I would like to give a heartfelt thank you to all the messages of support I have received from people from all over the country and beyond, and also wish the residents of Balcombe success in their fight against Cuadrilla Resources Limited and Sussex Police who are enabling this corporation’s actions at the expense of the people they are meant to serve.

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BRIDGEND GREEN PARTY SUMMER SOCIAL – SUNDAY 4th AUGUST

Ogmore-by-Sea
Beach-combing/clean-up + Beach BBQ

Everybody welcome.

Meet up in main car park by Neil’s Silver Campervan about 11.00am

John will have his BBQ with him and we have Neil’s camper stove as back-up.

Just bring what you plan to eat with you and we will cook it after the ramble on the beach collecting up any rubbish and/or anything interesting we can find. Bring a black bin bag or two!!

For more information or to arrange a lift, contact Andy on 078 1066 3241 or email greens

HOW CAN WE DEFEAT UNCONVENTIONAL GAS EXPLOITATION IN WALES?

Public Meeting

Wednesday 31st July 2013, 7-9pm

The Caeffatri Castle View Bridgend, CF31 1NJ

Large areas of Wales are threatened by Unconventional Gas development, in the form of Fracking, Coal Bed Methane, and Underground Coal Gasification.

All of these technologies have caused pollution, harm to human health & social and economic disruption in Australia & North America.

This meeting is for any individual or group who is keen to act. It is a participatory event looking at resistance from around the world & what we can do in Wales together to keep our communities gasfield free.

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