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Melissa Jones: /* Support for a ban on fracking */

2019-07-31T03:00:11Z

Support for a ban on fracking

Melissa Jones: /* Support for a ban on fracking */

2019-07-31T02:49:49Z

Support for a ban on fracking

Melissa Jones: /* Support for a ban on fracking */

2019-07-31T02:49:02Z

Support for a ban on fracking

Melissa Jones at 02:36, 31 July 2019

2019-07-31T02:36:57Z

Melissa Jones: /* Support for a ban on fracking */

2019-07-31T02:36:00Z

Support for a ban on fracking

Melissa Jones: /* Support for a ban on fracking */

2019-07-31T02:17:20Z

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2019-07-31T02:16:27Z

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2019-07-31T02:12:59Z

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2019-07-31T02:11:35Z

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Melissa Jones at 02:07, 31 July 2019

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 ==Support for a ban on fracking==
-[[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right]] In July 2019 the [[Labour Party]] released its analysis showing that fracking, if it goes ahead in Britain, would stop the country reaching a net zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.
+[[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right]] In July 2019 the [[Labour Party]] released analysis showing that fracking, if it goes ahead in Britain, would stop the country reaching a net zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.
 On 30 July Corbyn visited campaigners protesting outside [[Cuadrilla]]’s shale gas site near Blackpool and repeated his call for the government and incoming PM [[Boris Johnson]]) to ban fracking:
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 :“I want to say well done everyone in Lancashire that opposed fracking here, as in Derbyshire and other places, in Sussex, and the way in which you have made sure the issue is kept alive.”
 ====Industry response====

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 :“I want to say well done everyone in Lancashire that opposed fracking here, as in Derbyshire and other places, in Sussex, and the way in which you have made sure the issue is kept alive.”
 ====Industry response====
 In response, the fracking industry resorted to its oft-cited argument of the need for Britain to develop homegrown gas and stop relying on gas imports, including from places such as Qatar and Russia. Cuadrilla’s chief executive, [[Francis Egan]] said:
-:“I am very disappointed that Labour appear to favour continued and increasing levels of gas imports by ship from the Middle East, Africa or the United States or by pipeline from Russia rather than developing a well-regulated job creating UK shale gas industry.<ref> Ruth Hayhurst, [https://drillordrop.com/2019/07/30/labour-leader-joins-lancashire-campaigners-to-demand-ban-on-fracking/#more-76210 Labour leader joins Lancashire campaigners to demand ban on fracking], ''DrillorDrop'', 30 July 2019, accessed same day </ref>
+:“I am very disappointed that Labour appear to favour continued and increasing levels of gas imports by ship from the Middle East, Africa or the United States or by pipeline from Russia rather than developing a well-regulated job creating UK shale gas industry.
 ==Labour leadership contest 2015==

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 In June 2015 Corbyn announced he would stand as a candidate to succeed [[Ed Miliband]] as the leader of the Labour Party, and would do so on a 'clear anti-austerity platform'.<ref> BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33000155 Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn enters race], 3 June 2015, accessed 27 July 2015.</ref>
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+===Campaign team===
 *[[Simon Fletcher]], campaign director. Fletcher has worked a number of key Labour figures including; [[Ken Livingstone]] for twelve years, including eight years as his chief of staff when he was Mayor of London; [[Tony Benn]] and is believed to have been a member of [[Socialist Action]]; and [[Ed Miliband]], as his trade union liaison officer. He will work for Corbyn out of the [[Transport Salaried Staffs' Association]] Union offices in London.
 *[[Kat Fletcher]], agent. Was elected president of the [[National Union of Students]] in 2004, after running on an anti-tuition fees ticket and defeating the [[Labour Students]] candidate. Fletcher then worked at the [[Centre for Excellence in Leadership]], as [[Ed Miliband]]'s head of volunteers in his Labour leadership campaign in 2010 and as Corbyn's agent in the 2015 general election. She has been a councillor since 2013 and is currently deputy mayor on Islington council and runs small London pub company [[Handmade Pubs]].

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 :A green industrial revolution will create around 400,000 jobs, high-skilled, good quality, well-paid jobs, all around the country. That is a future for our children. We have a short window, as a people, to reduce CO2 emissions, to prevent global warming beyond 1.5C, in order to protect the planet.
-:“I want to say well done everyone in Lancashire that opposed fracking here, as in Derbyshire and other places, in Sussex, and the way in which you have made sure the issue is kept alive.” <ref> Ruth Hayhurst, [https://drillordrop.com/2019/07/30/labour-leader-joins-lancashire-campaigners-to-demand-ban-on-fracking/#more-76210 Labour leader joins Lancashire campaigners to demand ban on fracking], ''DrillorDrop'', 30 July 2019, accessed same day </ref>
+:“I want to say well done everyone in Lancashire that opposed fracking here, as in Derbyshire and other places, in Sussex, and the way in which you have made sure the issue is kept alive.”
 ==Labour leadership contest 2015==

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 ==Support for a ban on fracking==
-[[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right]] In July 2019 Corbyn visited campaigners protesting outside [[Cuadrilla]]’s shale gas site near Blackpool and repeated his call for the government and incoming PM [[Boris Johnson]]) to ban fracking:
+[[File:Jeremy-Corbyn-tweet-ban-fracking-July-2019.png|thumb|400px|right]] In July 2019 the [[Labour Party]] released its analysis showing that fracking, if it goes ahead in Britain, would stop the country reaching a net zero target for carbon emissions by 2050.
 :“We need urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, and that means the prime minister immediately banning fracking once and for all.
 :“Instead of bending the knee to a few corporations who profit from extracting fossil fuels from the ground, we need to change course now. It’s the next generation and the world’s poorest who will pay the price if this Conservative government continues to put the interests of a few polluters ahead of people.” <ref>Mikey Smith, [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-demands-boris-johnson-18796746 Jeremy Corbyn demands Boris Johnson stop 'bending the knee' and ban fracking], ''The Mirror'', 29 July 2019, accessed 30 July 2019 </ref>
 Corbyn told campaigners that:

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		+	:“I want to see a green industrial revolution in Britain. I want to see sustainability. We cannot go on with this level of CO2 emissions and global warming, otherwise we are all damaged if not doomed.
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		+	:A green industrial revolution will create around 400,000 jobs, high-skilled, good quality, well-paid jobs, all around the country. That is a future for our children. We have a short window, as a people, to reduce CO2 emissions, to prevent global warming beyond 1.5C, in order to protect the planet.
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		+	“I want to say well done everyone in Lancashire that opposed fracking here, as in Derbyshire and other places, in Sussex, and the way in which you have made sure the issue is kept alive.” <ref> Ruth Hayhurst, [https://drillordrop.com/2019/07/30/labour-leader-joins-lancashire-campaigners-to-demand-ban-on-fracking/#more-76210 Labour leader joins Lancashire campaigners to demand ban on fracking], ''DrillorDrop'', 30 July 2019, accessed same day </ref>

	==Labour leadership contest 2015==		==Labour leadership contest 2015==