Sam Riches and Patrick Harvie
County Cllr Sam Riches travelled to Aberdeen for the Scottish Green Party’s annual conference on 29-30 October. She was one of two official delegates from the Green Party of England and Wales to the conference of our sister party in Scotland, and is seen here with Patrick Harvie MSP – who is the male co-convenor of the Scottish Greens as well as one of two Green members of the Scottish Parliament.
Sam said, ‘I was delighted to represent the English and Welsh Greens at this conference, and I was able to get really involved. I was invited to chair one session – a speech by Glasgow City Councillor Martha Wardrop – and I was also asked to contribute to a debate on the hot topic of fracking – the controversial technique of extracting natural gas from shale beds. This is already taking place on an experimental basis in Lancashire, near Blackpool, and there is a threat of fracking being tried in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. I’m delighted to say that the conference overwhelmingly voted to adopt a new, and strikingly simple, policy for the Scottish Greens: “We oppose hydraulic fracturing (fracking) methods of extracting oil and gas from conventional and unconventional wells.”‘
For more information on fracking visit Frack Off or Ribble Estuary Against Fracking
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