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Posted on October 21, 2024 by XR Dorking in Uncategorized Oil firm continues to pump oil from Horse Hill site, while Surrey County Council turns blind eye, despite planning consent being quashed by Supreme Court in June On Monday, ten Extinction Rebellion campaigners are blocking the entrance to the UK Oil & Gas Horse Hill oil extraction site in Horley, Surrey, near Gatwick Airport, to prot…

Posted on June 13, 2023 by XR Dorking Horse hill to brockham SUNDAY, 18TH JULY 1.30pm for 2pm start Join us for a walk of resistance between two of Surrey’s hidden oil extraction sites. At a time when we must stop all fossil fuel production in order to achieve net zero, these onshore sites are not just being kept open, but encouraged to increase their output. This walk will take place just day…

Posted on February 3, 2023 by XR Dorking Last weekend saw the start of the national Dirty Water campaign, to highlight the devastating impact that pollution in our rivers has on human, animal and plant life; We were joined by concerned local people as we unveiled ‘blue plaques’ in Dorking and Reigate to commemorate our local MPs voting against tighter controls on sewage pollution fr…

20 October 2021 refers to the date when MPs blocked an amendment to the Environment Bill, which would have forced water companies in the UK to properly clean up sewage before discharge. Instead, it was decided to incentivise them to make improvements or be fined. Since privatisation, water companies have done little to prevent sewage spills, despite making £2.8 billion profit in…

Posted on September 30, 2022 by XR Dorking You may have seen them popping up at the War Memorial in Dorking on a Friday morning:  a group of people, out in most weathers, sitting in silence with a banner reading “Pause for the Planet”.  For several years now, Extinction Rebellion Dorking have been quietly asking passers-by to pause a moment and spare a thought for the planet and what w…

Posted on July 1, 2022 by XR Dorking rebel blog by titia Climate change is happening, you know that. You would like to do more. But you don’t know what, how, where or when. You don’t have time or energy to add something on top of everything you already do. What you could fit in your schedule feels so little that it doesn’t really seem worth it. Sounds like you? I have good news for you. Your c…

Posted on December 4, 2021 Today we will be taking action in Dorking and Reigate to highlight the issue of air pollution locally, nationally and globally. Reason 1 – Health Air pollution is one of the largest environmental risks to public health in the UK and contributes to shortening and reducing the quality of life for thousands. 40,000 UK deaths a year are estimated to arise from air pollut…

Posted on October 23, 2021 by XR Dorking The online auction to raise funds for the Horse Hill Appeal is now live! https://app.galabid.com/horsehillappeal Climate campaigner, Sarah Finch, is challenging Surrey Surrey County Council’s decision to allow four new oil wells (in addition to the two existing wells on the site) and 20 years of oil production at Horse Hill, near Gatwick Airport. At th…

Posted on June 30, 2021 by XR Dorking We’ve had lots of positive feedback from the first East Surrey People’s Assembly, which was facilitated by members of XR Dorking and XR Reigate and Redhill. Over 80 participants took part and contributed to the discussion ‘How do you want East Surrey to be in 2030?’ ESPA envisioned East Surrey in 2030 as a web of well-connected communities, collaborating wi…

Posted on April 16, 2021 by XR Dorking At our XR Dorking/XR Reigate and Redhill People’s Assembly earlier this year, we set up a Working Group on Councillor Engagement.  This summarises the plan created by this Group: Our objective is to put the climate and ecological emergency on the agenda in the local elections in May.  As many candidates as possible should be made aware that the c…

Posted on January 19, 2021 by XR Dorking Surrey Pension Fund continues to invest in companies that are driving ecological collapse, mass extinction, and climate breakdown. The Fund still holds c. £70m in dirty fossil fuels, which risk becoming ‘stranded assets’, as the former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned. “It is ever more clear that the fossil fuel era is ending, signal…

Posted on October 28, 2020 by XR Dorking The Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill was introduced to Parliament as a Private Members Bill on 2nd September 2020.  Guided by the current science, this Bill has been written by an alliance of scientists, lawyers academics and campaigners, in the hope of securing a sound strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and restore the natural wo…