Fracking

Conference notes the reports of an increase in earthquake activity in Lancashire since Cuadrilla was granted a licence to frack for gas. Conference is also concerned that the granting of those licences, by central Government, appears to have overturned local democracy.

Following the UN’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report last October, Conference believes that climate change and its effects on our lives, and those of future generations, is now of the highest importance. As such, Conference believes that FBU Policy should be to support renewable energy sources in preference to burning more carbon fuels.

Therefore, Conference instructs the FBU to oppose fracking in the UK and instructs the Executive Council to support campaigns against fracking.