We’re half way through the hearing into our legal challenge on Gatwick Airport expansion – and the govt has made a partial concession on one of our grounds: noise. We’re pleased we have secured better protection for local people on this at least. The case continues. www.gacc.org.uk/resources/GA...

The first day of the hearing into legal challenges on Gatwick expansion, today was mostly about climate impacts. Thanks to those who came to support, including @carladenyer.bsky.social, Paul Steedman of @cpresussex.bsky.social, and reps from @friends-earth.bsky.social and @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

Good luck!

We'll be in the High Court from 20 January. Our chair·Peter Barclay is challenging the govt's decision to allow Gatwick Airport to convert its emergency runway into full-time use. The climate impact of this expansion is AT LEAST 8 x bigger than the Airport claims www.gacc.org.uk/resources/Pr...

📢 Campaign win in Hampshire 📢 We’ve just had misleading pro-oil language stripped out of the Hampshire Minerals & Waste Plan! The claim that onshore oil “makes an important contribution to supply” and benefits from being close to centres of demand, has been deleted.

I am sure that @nationaltrust.org.uk does not want to be associated with such outright denial. Please review your advertising policy!

Shocking story! Gamebird licence refused, gamebirds released anyway, consequences minimal. “all my Days shooting had been sold ... and the pheasant and partridge poults ordered ... Without a licence I’m going to be in a very embarrasing situation”. Er, get the licence before selling the Days?

A great short (11 min) film about the wonderful Salmon Run, a crazy event combining running, art, science and lots of fun to share the impressive journey of the endangered Atlantic salmon from sea to spawning ground. I'm looking forward to Salmon Run 2026 on 19 September. Book your place!

The Salmon Run is back! 🐟 🎉 Save the date: Saturday 19 September 2026 Ultra: 44 mile run Relay: legs from 2.5–10 miles Through running, art and science, we will share the impressive journey of the endangered Atlantic salmon from sea to spawning ground. Book on our website, link in bio

Great idea! Mike Berners-Lee is knowledgeable and articulate, he would make an ideal guest. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social, hope you will consider.

@wealdactiongroup.bsky.social is considering legal action over methane emissions from onshore oil & gas sites. We've written to DESNZ and the Environment Agency. Depending on their response, we may bring a claim for judicial review. Read more ⬇️ www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2026/01/new-...

Happy new year! 2025 was quite a year for us. We saw continuing impacts of our 2024 Supreme Court win, and renewed debate on the vexed definition of fracking. And we started work on a new campaign on methane. Read the highlights: www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2025/12/2025... (Photo: Uplift)

Merry Christmas Drill or Drop! Thank you for all your great work over the year (and every year). Everyone interested in onshore oil & gas, follow @drillordrop.bsky.social for incisive reporting on all aspects of the industry, and the fight against it.

Ban small-scale fracking for onshore oil and gas! This petition by Burniston campaigners already triggered a parliamentary debate. Please show the strength of feeling on this issue by signing it and sharing in your networks. Closing date 4 January 2026 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Surprise Surprise, UKOG have *still* not come forward with their revised application for Horse Hill. “We can expect that now in the early part of the new year...” Do @surreycc.gov.uk realise UKOG is just stringing them along to avoid restoring the site (as they are doing at Broadford Bridge)?

Hooray! Oil cos abandon plans to produce oil at Biscathorpe. Because of the tax regime and the “lack of clear case law post-Finch”, they say. Really it's because they can no longer get away with obfuscating about their climate impact. Waddock Cross next? @sosbiscathorpe.bsky.social

Ban single-use coffee cups! Please sign this petition c.org/TKfcT74ptQ

I've just called on the UK Government to stop Berwick Bank! The world's deadliest wind farm for birds shouldn't be funded by public money. action.rspb.org.uk/page/183454/...

Ritz Carlton: out of the Maasai Mara now action.eko.org/a/ritz-carlt...

Good luck in the hearing today

I'm looking forward to this panel discussion on climate protest and the ever more regressive context we find ourselves in. It's from 6.30–8:00 at the LSE Campus tomorrow, 9 Dec. Hosted by Legal Voices for the Future, non-lawyers are welcome too. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

EU Commission : NO unlimited pesticide approvals action.eko.org/a/eu-commiss...

WATCH: @climatechoirs.bsky.social flashmob at lighting of Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square Norway's gift to the UK this year comes with strings attached - they are pressuring the UK to sign off on the mega-polluting Rosebank oil field. #StopRosebank

Fingleton's attack on Aarhus cost capping would severely undermine public access to justice - an attack on human rights too. Read this excellent briefing from @mpwatch.bsky.social www.mpwatch.org/blog/the-aar... @labourlewis.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social

I just signed a petition: QBE: STOP INSURING REFORM UK. #BoycottBloodyInsurance Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/qb...

I've just emailed my MP @steveracemp.bsky.social to tell him what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too? action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

The Finch ruling - which came about through Sarah's tireless campaigning - means that the environmental impact assessment of a fossil fuel project must include the emissions from all the fuel it produces, and not just the impact of the infrastructure itself It's hugely important

Nooooo! Don't scrap the Finch ruling! Keir Starmer may see them as part of “unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” but the Finch ruling, Habitats Regulations, biodiversity net gain, etc, are vital protections for our planet and for nature.

Société Générale: Stop Financing Adani's Coal action.eko.org/a/societe-ge...

One of our elected MPs, Geoffrey Cox the Conservative MP for Torridge and Tavistock, is supporting a foreign company to sue our government (i.e. our money) for not building a coal mine... this is a huge scandal! And morally wrong on so many levels. Why the media silence?!

Recommended read! A new cross-Mediterranean cable is being promoted as green progress – while reinforcing Tunisia’s debt and dependency. The old colonial story of Europe pursuing its goals at the expense of Southern sovereignty. By @tninstitute.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...

Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7... #climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity

What brilliant news! Well done Justiça Ambiental!, Friends of the Earth and all who worked on this. Let's hope no other county will back this horrific project. JA! sent @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social a solidarity message for our campaign on Horse Hill: www.wealdactiongroup.org.uk/2021/11/lets...

Hope is here. Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️

For a major oil and gas-producing nation, a G7 member, and a country with significant historical responsibility for driving the climate crisis, ending oil & gas exploration is a significant decision. Now the govt needs to follow through by refusing consent for Rosebank.

There's a lot to like about @zackpolanski.bsky.social. The politics of course, but also that he comes over as a genuine thoughtful person. "Even when things are pretty bleak politically, all our times on Earth are short and we should enjoy every moment while doing the best we can."

Exeter is anti-racist. Exeter is anti-fascist. #ExeterIsForEveryone

A huge turn out to face off the far right in Exeter (again). #ExeterIsForEveryone #RefugeesWelcome

This article is really good. Both on how the planning system is near impossible for communities to navigate and regulation lacking – and on the strength of communities coming together to fight oil & gas projects. Good luck to the Foxholes locals. We also have an Egdon application in Dorset.

🚨 Half the UK’s top 10 fish stocks are being overexploited, new research shows! Overfishing is emptying our seas of life, and it's a political choice 🐟 So I’m joining @oceanauk.bsky.social in calling on the Prime Minister to end overfishing in UK waters. Join us! 📩 act.oceana.org/page/178303/...

Press release from @wealdactiongroup.bsky.social on our response to the Rosebank consultation. ⬇️ I feel moderately optimistic that the gov't won't be able to approve this climate-wrecking project a second time. There are many flaws in Equinor's statement on downstream scope 3 emissions.

Excellent @drdavidlowry letter in Daily Telegraph. Couldn't agree more "#EdMiliband is being disingenuous when he claims that nuclear energy is clean and home-grown". #SayNo2SizewellC www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...

Hello @scientistsforxr.earth I hope you all know that the government is shortly to decide whether to scrap or greenlight Rosebank - the UK's biggest undeveloped oil field. There's a consultation open now. Please have your say BY WEDNESDAY actionnetwork.org/forms/the-go... Please share!

But we still have to try! If the UK govt said no to Rosebank and left our fossil fuels in the ground, this would set a new norm inspiring other countries to follow. Consultation on Rosebank open now. I hope you've had your say @profbillmcguire.bsky.social ? actionnetwork.org/forms/the-go...

And another one! These common sense decisions are making me hopeful the UK government will say NO to Rosebank... the decision is back in their hands at the end of this week. There's still time to have your say - but be quick, the consultation closes on Thursday actionnetwork.org/forms/the-go...

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

Brilliant news! Well done Greenpeace Norway and Natur og Ungdom (Young Friends of the Earth Norway! "The need for governments to protect their citizens from climate harm has now become far too obvious to ignore, and thankfully, judges around the world are realising this.”

30 years ago this week, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow Ogoni activists were executed by the Nigerian government, allegedly for a crime they didn’t commit but actually because of their campaigning against Shell’s oil pollution. Ken Saro Wiwa film: Shell Shocked Land www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUq...

What a pleasing result! Well done Cllr Dunn and North Somerset Greens

After five years of setbacks, Sarah Finch finally won. Her message isn’t about easy victories. It’s about persistence and believing that one action can trigger a tipping point in the right direction. Hear Sarah’s story on the EQUALS Podcast: www.equals.ink/p/a-hopeful-... #ClimateJustice