Stop and ban all new oil, coal and gas projects by passing local resolutions and building community resistance.
Ending the climate crisis means we have to keep fossil fuel reserves in the ground. That means stopping all new coal, oil and gas infrastructure, and banning future fossil fuel projects — by 2020. When you’re in a hole, stop digging.
You can start or join a campaign where you live to ban new fossil fuel projects. It can be a ban on all new fossil fuel projects of any kind or it could focus on exploration, extraction, transportation, generation — or even the use of your local natural resources like water for use in fossil fuel projects.
All over the world communities are resisting new fossil fuel projects, and stopping them in their tracks — whether it is fracking, gas, oil or coal. Check out the map for local community struggles near you and get involved – it takes a community to halt a fossil fuel project!
Many community-led fights against projects are localised and may not be on the Fossil Free map yet. The best way to find out about these groups is by bringing some friends together and making a plan to find out what is happening on the ground in your local area.
Start or join a campaign where you live to ban new fossil fuels projects. It can be a ban on all new fossil fuel projects of any kind or it could focus on exploration, extraction, transportation, generation — or even the use of your local natural resources like water for use in fossil fuel projects.
Each and every success will both add momentum to this growing movement and chip away at the fossil fuel industry’s ability to operate and expand. By building local people power in support of a ban, each campaign also helps strengthen public debate and awareness of the inevitable energy revolution underway.
In January 2018, community-led resistance in the city of Peruíbe, in the southeast region of Brazil, stopped one of the world’s largest gas powered plants from being built, and simultaneously banned any such projects in the future. More