Local groups

Here you can find details of local groups that are fighting fracking in the British Isles. The map is interactive: click on symbols to see group details. Please contact us if you want you group added.

• Mendip Fracking Action

  Campaign group against extreme energy extraction proposals in Somerset. Including shale gas extraction and coal bed methane extraction across the county and including the Mendip Hills.

  • Location: Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet
  • Email: info@frackfreesomerset.org
  • Website: http://www.frackfreesomerset.org/

• Frack Off London

  Getting Londoners angry about extreme energy. Hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts - their pockets!

  Concerned about fracking? Live in London? Join us!

  • Location: London
  • Email: frackofflondon@gmail.com
  • Facebook page

• Frack-Free Wales

  Set up to establish the facts on unconventional fossil fuel extraction in Wales and to fight for a moratorium until these methods are proven safe.
  • Location: Cardif
  • Facebook page

• Frack Free Forth Valley

  Set up to bring people together and to raise awareness about Dart Energy and their intentions for Forth Valley.
  • Location: Airth
  • Facebook page

• Frack Free Dorset

  Community group based in Dorset who want to protect the Dorset environment from Fracking.

  • Location: Dorchester
  • Email: info@frackfreedorset.org
  • Website: http://www.frackfreedorset.org/

• Sussex Extreme Energy Resistance (SEER)

  A non-heirarchical group resisting the threat of extreme energy.  Join us for regular meetings, talks, film nights, public awareness raising, supporting and protecting local communities, resilience strategies, creative resistance, and links and friendship with local/national/international groups and communities.

  • Location: Brighton, Sussex
  • Facebook page

• North West Network Against Fracking

  A community cohesion group that have come together in the North West of Ireland to fight the threat of Hydraulic Fracturing.

  • Location: Northern Ireland
  • Facebook page

• Carrick Against Fracking

  • Location: Carrick
  • Facebook page

• Not For $hale

  Belfast based group of concerned members of the public who have come together to highlight the threat of Fracking.

  • Location: Belfast
  • Website: http://notforshale.com

• Fracked Swansea - S.A.F.E (Swansea Against Fracked Energy)

  There is a problem coming to Swansea, extreme energy extraction has targeted unworked coal seams and deep shale beds in South Wales. We're going to stand against the triple threat of Shale Gas, Coal Bed Methane extraction and Underground Coal Gasification.

  • Location: Swansea
  • Facebook page

• Residents Action on Fylde Fracking (RAFF)

  We are a group of local residents who are calling for an immediate halt to gas extraction on the Fylde coast pending a thorough evaluation of the risks.

  • Location: Lancashire
  • Website: http://stopfyldefracking.org.uk

• Frack Free Devon

  Frack Free Devon is the campaign to urge Devon County Council to adopt a policy to refuse any drilling for shale gas within its borders. In addition the county must refuse to become a dump from the toxic waste from fracking.

  • Location: Devon
  • Facebook page

• Frome Anti-Fracking

  • Location: Frome, Somerset
  • Email: sharedearthlearning@gmail.com
  • Website: http://fromeantifracking.blogspot.com

• Lewes Against Fracking

  Lewes Against Fracking are a group formed by residents of the town concerned about proposed hydraulic fracturing throughout the region and the UK.

  • Location: Lewes, East Sussex
  • Website: http://lewesagainstfracking.wordpress.com

• Lingfield Anti Fracking

  • Location: Lingfield, Surrey
  • Facebook page

• Frack Free Sussex

  Will we allow industry practices to be deployed in Sussex that could irreversibly contaminate our aquifers and trigger earthquakes?

  • Location: Sussex
  • Website: http://www.gasdrillinginbalcombe.wordpress.com

• Frack Free Somerset

  Frack Free Somerset is a coalition of concerned groups in Somerset who are taking action on hydraulic fracturing.

  • Location: Somerset
  • Email: info@frackfreesomerset.org
  • Website: http://frackfreesomerset.org/

• No Fracking in East Kent

  Local community campaign to stop Shale Gas in East Kent.

  • Location: Kent
  • Facebook page

• N.E.Wales Anti-Fracking Action Network

  • Location: Wrexham
  • Facebook page

• The Vale Says NO!

  The Vale said NO and the planning committee listened. Now the decisions is being taken to appeal by Coastal Oil and Gas. We are currently facing our biggest challenge yet!

  • Location: South Wales
  • Email: web@thevalesaysno.com
  • Website: http://thevalesaysno.com

• Ribble Estuary Against Fracking (REAF)

  REAF are a local pressure group who are opposed to this extreme form of fossil fuel extraction.

  • Location: Lancashire
  • Email: info@reaf.org.uk
  • Website: http://www.reaf.org.uk