Photo: Nilfanion (Wikimedia UK) One of the INEOS licences, PED元07, includes parts of the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve and Sherwood Forest County Park. It is also a partner with IGas in another nine local licences, most of them between Rotherham and Lincoln. INEOS is the operator of nine shale gas exploration licences in the East Midlands, stretching from north of Nottingham to beyond Barnsley. Other events are planned for: Dronfield, Eckington and Coal Aston near Marsh Lane Bolsover and nearby Stanfree and Cresswell, and in Sheffield, said by some to be the birthplace of Robin Hood. “Join Friends of the Earth this spring as Robin and his band travel across the region to say: no fracking in my ‘hood!”Įvents are planned for Edwinstowe, in Nottinghamshire, known as home of Robin Hood, and in three villages where INEOS has applied to drill shale gas exploration wells: Marsh Lane, in north east Derbyshire, and Woodsetts and Harthill in Rotherham borough. “But INEOS’ invasion has awoken a sleeping legend – Robin Hood, arise! Now he and his merry band of outlaws are riding out from Sherwood Forest to do battle with the fracking industry. “Fracking firm INEOS wants to hunt for shale gas in Sherwood Forest – and its fracking plans threaten a swathe of central England.
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The events include fancy dress lantern parades, street theatre and more than 30 days of free family craft workshops during four weeks in February and March.įriends of the Earth said the campaign was designed to “drive out the Sheriff of Frackingham”. The groups are urging people to “stand with Robin Hood in the fight to save Sherwood and the forests of England from fracking”.
The legend of Robin Hood is inspiring a campaign against plans by INEOS to explore for shale gas in the East Midlands.įriends of the Earth and community groups in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire are staging a roadshow of events under the title Robin Hood vs fracking.
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