Deadline To Object To Fracking In Derbyshire Approaches
August 10 will be the deadline for all objections to the first Derbyshire exploratory well for fracking. The contentious environmental issue,
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Fracking Month: “How I Started Amber Valley Against Fracking”
I first started Amber Valley Against Fracking (AVAF) back in September 2015, after hearing on a local radio morning show that
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Fracking Month: Alternatives To Fracking
So it’s all very well to criticise fracking, but what are the alternatives? If we are to progress to a
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Fracking Month: Fracking And The Environment
There is a growing controversy around the question of fracking (using a mixture of water, sand and chemicals under extremely
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Fracking Month: Spell
N is for nature, wondrous and wild, O for the ozone that nearly retired, F for forget-me-not, fennel and furze,
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Fracking Month: In Space No One Can Hear You Frack
If you were a Martian visiting Earth for the first time, you would find it abundantly clear that fracking poses a
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Advertising Features Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Fracking
3 Perfect Bar Crawls. Jet Engine Testing Facility A Catalyst For Innovation. Get Your Patio Ready For Outdoor Entertaining. Top
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Amber Valley Against Fracking – Petition
Back in December we told you about fracking coming to Amber Valley (original article) and in May reported on Amber
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Amber Valley Protests Fracking
On 9th May INEOS, who hold fracking licences for parts of Amber Valley and Derbyshire held an invitation only presentation
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Belper MP Votes for Fracking at World Heritage Sites
On 16/12/15 the House of Commons voted on whether to allow fracking under National Parks. The Peak District was specifically
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Election: Fact Check & Analysis: Felix Dodds
All the parties put out election leaflets, but how much in them is actually true when examined? We are checking
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Election: Leaflet Fact Check & Analysis: Pauline Latham
All the parties put out election leaflets, but how much in them is actually true when examined? First we are
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Opinion Column: On Populism
In Ece Temelkuran’s “How To Lose A Country: The Seven Steps From Democracy To Dictatorship” (4th Estate, 2019) Temelkuran problematizes
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AVBC Trifecta: Climate Emergency, Amber Valley a Frack-Free Zone, & Badger Culling Ban
A raucous Amber Valley council meeting has seen the authority declare a climate emergency, make the borough a “frack-free zone”
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EU Election: Comprehensive Candidate Guide
There are no comprehensive guides to EU election candidates in the East Midlands for 2019 … until now. This information
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Election: Heage and Ambergate Ward
All wording is exactly as given by the parties. We have changed nothing. Candidates in this ward Sarah Johnson “I
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Election: Belper North Candidates
All wording is exactly as given by the parties. This is the best we can offer with the information provided
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Opinion: What If There Had Been No Government Cuts To Sustainable Energy?
BelperStuff travelled to London last Monday to attend the SERA (Labour Environment Campaign) celebration, 10 years of the Climate Change
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If We Only Had a Heart: Petitions and Meetings and Protests. Oh My!
If We Only Had a Heart is a new occassional column which I am introducing to enable people to mobilise
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Derby City Councillors Call On Pension Fund To Divest From Fossil Fuels
Derby City Councillors have called on the Derbyshire Pension Fund to divest from fossil fuel after increasing pressure from local
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Fifth Belper Goes Green Festival A Huge Success
The fifth Belper Goes Green Eco festival, organised by Transition Belper, saw thousands of visitors attending the event at Belper
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Election Special: Looking For A Climate Of Honesty
Seven years ago Cameron and Clegg formed their coalition and set in train the ideologically driven ‘austerity’ programme. At the
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Review: Demain (Tomorrow)
Trump. Brexit. Cyber warfare. Automated Jobs. The world is in crisis. It’s a troubling time, and not just for environmentalists
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Election-Free Zone As Community Comes Together For Belper Goes Green
Belper Goes Green organisers have declared their 5th annual festival an Election-free Zone – a haven from the campaigning, rosettes,
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Derbyshire County Council Election – 4th May
On Thursday 4th May, all 64 seats on the Derbyshire County Council will be contested by 270 candidates as the
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Andy T & Support At The Queens Head, Belper. April 22nd
On Saturday April 22nd a night of contemporary poetry with Andy T, IBC, Sophie Sparham and Adie Sanders will take
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Richard Burgon MP in Conference by Bevan Cope
On Saturday there was a 3 hour workshop-based political conference in Derby, organised by the Derbyshire branch of Momentum, the
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New Cabinet: Derbyshire Dales MP is Conservative Party Chairman
As Theresa May takes office after gaining the position of Prime Minister when everyone else dropped out of the race,
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Fear and Loathing in England and Wales
Back in January, having watched Suffragette at the Ritz, I warned of the consequences of disenfranchisement and the potential for
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Labour Win Council Elections
In a stunning turn of political feeling in the town, decades of electing Conservative councillors has been ended with Belper
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Your Town, Your Vote: Green Party
Sue MacFarlane, Green Candidate for Belper North I first moved to Belper in 1997 due to work commitments, and loved
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A Poor Fill for the East Mill
It looks like the vacuum at the East Mill will soon be filled as Ineos Shale plan to locate their
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Opinion: Labour Environmental Campaign Offers New Hope
Let me take you back to 1963 and a dark and smelly biology classroom populated by 36 scruffy and inattentive
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The Ritz – A Thinking Man’s Haven
I’ve seen two films at the Ritz recently. The first was ‘Ice and The Sky’, a French film charting the
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Belper’s Vigil on Climate Change Reaches World Leaders.
Nearly 150 world leaders arrived in Paris on Sunday to begin the COP:21 talks on climate change; a potentially historic
Read MoreMixed Messages on Renewable Future from Amber Rudd
David Cameron told a UN climate-change conference in September 2014: “We need to give business the certainty it needs to
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