The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group has a successful history of involving trade unions in climate campaigning - including the production of the One Million Climate Jobs pamphlet which sets out the changes we need to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Last autumn I helped organise the Campaign against Climate Change’s Camp Frack in Hesketh Bank. At that time I never expected that a meeting against the imminent threat of fracking in Balcombe, less than 10miles from my home in West Sussex, would be so well publicised or even attended.

Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has come to the UK !