{"id":934,"date":"2014-03-14T12:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=934"},"modified":"2014-03-14T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:50:44","slug":"resolution-of-euro-maghreb-frack-free-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Resolution of Euro-Maghreb frack-free network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Euro-Maghreb frack-free network <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Calling for a ban on all unconventional hydrocarbons and extractivism <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">United to denounce, in Europe and the Maghreb, the development of extreme fossil energy, dangerous for climate, environment and public health, and anti-democratic<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We, representatives of grassroots groups and associations from 21<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"#sdendnote1sym\" name=\"sdendnote1anc\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> European and North African countries, nations and communities, met in Saint-Christol-lez- Al\u00e8s (Gard, SE France) from March 7th to 9th 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">All of us are involved in the fight against the development of unconventional hydrocarbons<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"#sdendnote2sym\" name=\"sdendnote2anc\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> in our own countries and communities, as well as opposing other resource extraction activities. We are all facing the same issues, and we believe it is essential to strengthen the links between our struggles. The Korbach<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"#sdendnote3sym\" name=\"sdendnote3anc\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Declaration formulates the key demands which unite us. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Participants gave an alarming presentation of the situation in their respective countries. In that respect, we condemn in particular:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Damage to the environment, public health and water resources;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Disregard for environmental regulations on a national, European and North African level;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Commodification and financialisation of territories;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Violent police intervention, repeated violations of human rights and non-respect of the rights of local communities to decide their future, particularly in Poland, Romania, the UK, Ukraine, Tunisia and Morocco. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The use of police forces by States to defend private interests.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In addition, we call on international organisations and bodies to put an end to these violations immediately, and we demand that they force industrial players to restore environmentally degraded areas. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The free trade treaties, in place or under negotiation (the bilateral EU\/USA (TAFTA), EU\/Canada (CETA), EU\/Maghreb treaties, etc.), risk outweighing the decision making power of States in favour of multinational corporations. By prioritising private interests through the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism (ISDS), they will defy the foundations of democracy, the precautionary principle, all environmental legislation and the independence of the judiciary. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As we stated last January in an open letter<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"#sdendnote4sym\" name=\"sdendnote4anc\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">addressed to the European Commission and signed by over 400 European groups, the progress achieved thanks to our mobilisation could be altogether undermined.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">That is why we have decided on joint action aimed at mobilising the general public and at forcing European authorities to defend and strengthen the rights of populations and environmental legislation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This meeting has let us actively strengthen Euro-North African cooperation in the struggle against extreme energy and the extractive industry. It has reaffirmed our international solidarity towards countries which are victim of intolerable attacks by industrial players. It has supported the development of a growing movement of citizens who are outraged by the submission of the political world to private interests.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Together, we are calling on our governments to implement, on a massive scale and without delay, an energy transition based on<b> <\/b>sufficiency and energy efficiency, the abandonment of fossil fuels and the development of renewable energies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Finally, we wish to express our total solidarity with the activists who recently lost their lives, or their freedom, namely Eugeniy Kotlarl<sup><a href=\"#sdendnote5sym\" name=\"sdendnote5anc\"><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/sup> (Ukraine), Omar Moujane, Brahim El Hamdaoui, Abdessamad Madri<sup><a href=\"#sdendnote6sym\" name=\"sdendnote6anc\"><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/sup> (Imider &#8211; Morocco).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In addition, all of the European and North African countries here present jointly state:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There are alternatives to hydrocarbons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Let\u2019s leave the old-fashioned model of production and the extractive frenzy behind us!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\"><strong>NO TO SHALE AND COAL BED HYDROCARBONS,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IE\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOT HERE NOT ANYWHERE, NOT NOW NOT EVER<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"sdendnote1\">\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"#sdendnote1anc\" name=\"sdendnote1sym\">1<\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, England, France, Northern Ireland, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Republic of Ireland<\/i><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">, <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Romania, Spain &amp; Catalonia, Scotland, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, Wales<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote2\">\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"#sdendnote2anc\" name=\"sdendnote2sym\">2<\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Shale oil and gas and coal bed methane, oil shale and tar sands, tight oil and gas, etc.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote3\">\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"#sdendnote3anc\" name=\"sdendnote3sym\">3<\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.resolution-korbach.org\/\">www.resolution-korbach.org<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote4\">\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"#sdendnote4anc\" name=\"sdendnote4sym\">4<\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heavenorshell.se\/open-letter-eu-institutions\"><i>http:\/\/heavenorshell.se\/open-letter-eu-institutions<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><i> <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote5\">\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"#sdendnote5anc\" name=\"sdendnote5sym\">5<\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Zelenyi Front<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdendnote6\">\n<p lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"#sdendnote6anc\" name=\"sdendnote6sym\">6<\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><i>Mouvement Sur la Voie de 96<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euro-Maghreb frack-free network Calling for a ban on all unconventional hydrocarbons and extractivism United to denounce, in Europe and the Maghreb, the development of extreme fossil energy, dangerous for climate, environment and public health, and anti-democratic We, representatives of grassroots groups and associations from 211 European and North African countries, nations and communities, met in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[81,82],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energetika","tag-fracking","tag-shale-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsfoe.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}