After the anti-fracking winter of discontent in Barton Moss, a 3,500 name petition was handed into Salford Council in April, which should have triggered a debate at least amongst members of the Cabinet. Instead the anti-fracking petition led to a five minute hearing at Cabinet, delivered by Ali Abbas, on behalf of Manchester Friends of the Earth, after which there was no further discussions (for full background and report see previous Salford Star article click here)
Now, six months on from then, nothing further has been heard, despite other councils around the country rejecting fracking and local councillors speaking out against controversial shale gas extraction including Kate Chappell, Manchester City Council's Executive Member for the Environment, Colin Lambert, former leader of Rochdale Council, and Trafford councillor Jane Baugh.
"If other councillors have been willing to talk to their residents and voters about the fracking issue, why are Salford councillors so reluctant to respond to the legitimate questions raised by the people of Salford?" states Manchester Friends of the Earth "We think this is totally unacceptable."
Now the organisation is urging people to tweet-storm Salford Mayor Ian Stewart in the hope that it will kick him to make a response.
There are two ready done tweets available to send...
@MayorofSalford Six months ago, 3,000+ people asked @SalfordCouncil to go #frackfree. Where's our #fracking answer?
@MayorofSalford Six months on and not a tweet the people of Salford demand a response to our #fracking petition
People can either cut and paste them from here or go to Manchester Friends of the Earth site and click on a link which will do it automatically for people with a Twitter account click here to go to the site.
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