Our new business secretary is Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is now responsible for energy and climate change – this is someone with a record of climate...

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Hi John,
Our new business secretary is Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is now responsible for energy and climate change – this is someone with a record of climate denialism and who wants to extract “every last drop” of oil and gas from the North Sea.



** Fracking at home
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Facing the energy crisis, instead of taxing fossil fuel companies’ exorbitant profits to ease the strain on households, our new prime minister’s ‘solution’ is to double down on fossil fuels. And as part of this, Rees-Mogg has taken the final steps to lift the fracking ban in the UK.

To keep our planet’s climate liveable we need to keep all fossil fuels in the ground – not resurrect dangerous techniques which ordinary people have fought so strongly against, here and abroad.


** Fracking abroad
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Government decisions to ban or not ban fracking can have significant consequences. UK oil & gas company Ascent Resources is suing Slovenia in a secret tribunal for $118m over a ban on fracking. Ascent's plans to frack for gas in Slovenia had been strongly resisted by the local community.

How can a fossil fuel corporation take a foreign government to court just for implementing its own laws and for keeping gas in the ground?

They’re using the Energy Charter Treaty – and its corporate court system which lets companies sue foreign governments outside of the national legal system.


** Exit the ECT
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is also now one of the ministers responsible for the UK’s membership of this treaty. Its unjust and undemocratic corporate court system is set to be enshrined for a further ten years if European countries accept a greenwashed ‘modernisation’ in November.

This is ten years we can’t afford to waste in the struggle to transform fossil capitalism into a just and secure future for everyone.

But the good news is the treaty is on shaky ground: Italy has exited, Poland and Spain are set to leave, and Germany, France and the Netherlands are signalling their intention to follow suit.

Yet the ECT is not just a danger for governments overseas. If the UK stays signed up, and if the renewed campaigns against fracking in the UK are successful, we could still find ourselves paying out to UK fracking firms in corporate courts under this ridiculous treaty.

We have between now and November to convince the UK government: no to greenwashing, no to helping fracking firms sue around the world – time to exit the ECT now!
Sign the petition and tell Rees-Mogg to exit the ECT ([link removed])
The past few days have been one announcement after another from this government of plans that will increase corporate profits and power at the expense of the planet and the majority of people. It can feel overwhelming. But if we stand together, we can resist this corporate agenda.

Thank you for everything that you do.

Cleodie Rickard
Trade campaigner at Global Justice Now

PS. There is a vibrant UK-wide movement against fracking, and we fully support their renewed efforts to stop this and all new forms of fossil fuel extraction in the UK. You can sign Friends of the Earth’s petition ([link removed]) , or get involved in a number of local struggles against fracking around the country via the Frack Off network ([link removed]) .
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