Beyond Gas Network
What is the Beyond Gas network?
The beyond gas network was started by a group of people with diverse backgrounds (activists, NGOs, scientists etc.) to better coordinate their work to fight fossil gas. After a conference aiming at connecting gas activists in the fall of 2016, the Beyond Gas email list was created and steadily grew until today. A big part of the members of this list are based in Europe, but also many members from all across the planet are active in it.
How can you join?
The network mainly communicates via the “beyond-gas” email list. Activists, campaigners, scientists, NGOs etc. who fight gas are welcome to join our online conversation. You can email hello @ gastivists.org to join the list by shortly introducing yourself.
What do we do?
The Beyond Gas email list aims to be a platform to unite people from diverse backgrounds and geographies in the struggle against gas and the reckless practices of corporations and financial institutions supporting it.
This includes fighting new gas infrastructure, contesting injustices linked to gas extraction and the toxic economic implications of it, unmasking false solutions which directly or indirectly support gas use, and informing the public about the climate, environmental and social impacts of gas.
We strengthen the respective struggles by amplifying each other’s work, exchanging information and planning coordinated actions/working strands.
What can you concretely expect on the email list?
- Sharing of information and updates
- Help with questions
- Facilitation of the formation of working groups/coordinated actions
- Bimonthly network calls
- Webinars/virtual conferences
- Call outs for actions, sign on letters etc.
Rules for the Beyond Gas email list
- Newly joined members are invited to briefly introduce themselves.
- All questions are welcome, all updates from campaigns and struggles are welcome!
- In the subject line, it is useful to indicate what your email is about : [UPDATE] / [ACT] / [INVITATION] / [LAUNCH] /[READ] / [QUESTION] / etc
- We encourage you to share short updates about your campaigns, what is happening in your city, your research. You are also welcome to reach out to people with questions.
- We try and monitor who joins the list and hope to make it a space to share information with trusted allies. However we cannot guarantee that it is a safe space.
- Like in any other email list, we invite everyone to communicate in a fair and respectful manner. Harassment or bullying of any sort will not be tolerated.
Here are some groups fighting gas that you might want to connect with. They are many more out there – contact hello@gastivists.org if you’re specifically looking to be connected with a campaign or a country.
France: Amis de la Terre / 350.org / Non au Gazoduc Fos Dunkerque / Alternatiba
Italy: Comitato NO TAP / Movimento No TAP/ Re:Common
Netherlands: Groninger Bodem Beweging, Code Rood, Shell Must Fall
Portugal: Climaximo / Gás é Andar para Trás
Spain: Plataforma Resposta al MidcAT / Climaccio/ Observatory on Debt in Globalisation ODG / Ecologistas en Acción
Sweden: Fossilgasfällan
Algeria: Contre l’exploitation du gaz de schiste en Algerie
South Africa: Support Centre for Land Change (SCLC)
Mexico: Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking, Sancris Limpio
Chile: Coordinadora Chorera
Indonesia: KruHa
Brussels/Europe: CEE Bankwatch / Climate Action Network Europe / Corporate Europe Observatory / Counter Balance / E3G / Friends of the Earth Europe / Food & Water Europe / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels / 350.org
UK: Platform London / 350.org / UK: Frack Free Lancashire / Frack-Off/ Reclaim The Power
Germany: PowerShift e.V. Berlin / 350.org / Urgewald / DUH / Gegen Gasbohren / Local Initiatives of Gegen Gasuhren / Gastivists Berlin / Ende Gelande
Croatia: Zelena Akcija
Morocco: Attac Morocco
Nigeria: Health of Mother Earth Foundation
USA: Food and Water Watch / Oil Change International
Latin America: 350.org Latin America
Argentina: OpSur
Poland: Bombelki collective