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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 13h

⚡What does better look like? An energy system to end fuel poverty!💡

📍Friday 10th October; 3 - 4.30pm. Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow

For Challenge Poverty Week join FPA Glasgow's event to hear from experts across energy, health, housing & unions

Register here actionnetwork.org/events/what-...

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 20h

In or around Glasgow?

Join us this Friday 10 October for how to build an energy system that puts people first, ensures safe homes, and protects the planet!

📅RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/what-...

What does better look like? An energy system to end fuel poverty!

During Challenge Poverty Week, join Fuel Poverty Action Glasgow to find out how our energy system forces millions to live in cold damp homes fearing debt and disconnection, while energy firms see prof...

actionnetwork.org

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 1d

😍 New blog!

Operators of wind farms are being paid to turn OFF their turbines at times of particularly high wind speeds...

...but that excess energy could be harnessed and even given to households for free, argues FPA member Frank Gavurin: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/stop-paying-...

Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 5d

Whose energy system?

Join us at The World Transformed for a session casting light on rising bills, corporate capture and energy use.
📍 Manchester TWT Festival
⏰ 2.30pm, 11 October
🔗 theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...
@desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social @campaigncc.bsky.social

Fuel For Thought LIVE at The World Transformed Saturday 11 Oct 2.30-4pm

A participatory session with:
Ellen Robottom, Secretary of CACC Trade Union Group
Ruth London, founding member of Fuel Poverty Action (FPA)
Sam Bright, DeSmog UK's duty editor
Vicky Marsh, Manchester-based member of FPA

Whose Energy?
Casting a light on rising bills, corporate capture, and energy-use.

Who is our energy for? Why does big business get all the money? How can we lower our bills and save our future?

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 7d

Today, our energy bills go up AGAIN.

Labour promised to bring down bills by £300 - instead they're soaring 💸

💪 That's why we're taking our demands to Labour Conference.

You can sign up to support our campaign: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/what-you-can...

Demonstrators wear football-style scarves reading 'Fuel Poverty Action' and hold banners including one reading 'Fuel Poverty Kills, we need Energy For All'

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Sioux @siouxv.bsky.social · 8d

I will be there protesting with Fuel Poverty Action! Families are having to chose eat or heat while energy companies make massive profits! Fuel Poverty is a political choice! 😡✊🏻

Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 9d

Stu at Labour Conference today: "fuel poverty is a political choice" 💯

Instead of keeping our bills high, Labour can do 3 things:

1⃣ Stop the gas rip off by delinking the price of cheap, renewably generated electricity from the much higher cost of gas...

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 8d

🎡 Today we're protesting at #LabourConference2025

We're teaming up with @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social and @stopcambo.bsky.social at 4pm, ahead of our main demo tomorrow - ⏰12pm at the Wheel of Liverpool.

💥 Read our demands: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/october-1st-...

#EnergyForAll #StopRosebank

In this photo, the demonstrators hold their signs high in the air with determined expressions.

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 9d

2⃣ Distribute excess power from the wind and sun for use by people who need it.
3⃣ Improve homes to slash energy bills with proper heating systems, insulation and access to free solar generation.

🥶 With winter coming, what are they waiting for?
www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/october-1st-...

October 1st: Labour Conference Protest! | Fuel Poverty Action

Join us to demand Energy For All NOW. On October 1st, energy bills are predicted to rise again, the same day the Labour Party concludes its conference.

www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 9d

Stu at Labour Conference today: "fuel poverty is a political choice" 💯

Instead of keeping our bills high, Labour can do 3 things:

1⃣ Stop the gas rip off by delinking the price of cheap, renewably generated electricity from the much higher cost of gas...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 12d

The day the Labour conference ends is the same day YOUR energy bills will soar

Fuel Poverty Action will be taking a stand at the conference, telling Labour it must sort the scandal of extortionate energy bills out
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The day the Labour conference ends is the same day YOUR energy bills will soar

Fuel Poverty Action will be taking a stand at the conference, telling Labour it must sort the scandal of extortionate energy bills out

www.thecanary.co

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 14d

Join us next week!

On Oct 1, energy bills go up AGAIN. The same day, the Labour Party concludes its conference. But not without hearing from FPA!

🗓 Weds 1st Oct 2025, 9.30-2.30
➕ NEW DATE added: Tue 30th Sept 2025, 4pm
📍 Wheel of Liverpool, L34FN

RSVP: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/october-1st-...

Join us to protest against energy price hikes at Labour Conference - 1 week today!

Tues 30 Sept 4pm and Weds 1st October 2025, 9.30-2.30, Wheel of Liverpool, L34FN. QR code to RSVP overlaid over a photo of a Fuel Poverty Action Energy For All demonstration.

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 16d

We were at the Make Them Pay demo this weekend!

#TaxTheRich and #MakePollutersPay. Use the money to fund life's essentials, like #EnergyForAll!

Read our write-up: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/make-them-pa...

FPA members hold the FPA banner, looking to camera with their fists raised at the Make Them Pay demo in London, September 2025

Demonstrators at the Make Them Pay demo carry a giant effigy of a man in a business suit with spikey teeth and bendy rubber tube arms

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 19d

Richard Burgon at TUC Congress calls out where this government is going wrong @richardburgon.bsky.social

There’s plenty of money in Britain to guarantee all of our essential needs

We’re supporting Make Them Pay in London tomorrow, Saturday 20th September

💪 Pledge to be there: makethempay.org.uk

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 20d

Our energy bills are funding horrific excess profits 😡

It's simple: the government must legislate NOW to cap the profits we're paying to rich shareholders and bring down our bills.

FPA's Jonathan Bean quoted 👇 @theguardian.com

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20d

Privatisation of UK industries driving cost of living crisis & inequality.

People ripped off by water, energy, rail, mail companies.

Profiteering at care homes, dentists, GP surgeries, cataract clinics. Social housing destroyed.

Privatisation is a scam. Delivered low investment, poor service.

Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader

Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more

www.theguardian.com

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 21d

Every household should have enough energy to cover its basic needs.

During the windiest and sunniest periods when wind and solar energy is so cheap and abundant, it could be helping power all of our homes for free 💡

🧐 Read more here:
www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/october-1st-...

October 1st: Labour Conference Protest! | Fuel Poverty Action

Join us to demand Energy For All NOW. On October 1st, energy bills are predicted to rise again, the same day the Labour Party concludes its conference.

www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 21d

Raise your voice as the delegates pass into the conference

🎡 Assemble from: 09:30 at the Wheel of Liverpool for a photocall
📢 Main demonstration: 12:00, ahead of Keir Starmer’s speech

Tell Labour to:
Stop the gas rip off by delinking the price of cheap, renewably generated electricity from the much higher cost of gas
Distribute excess power from the wind and sun for use by people who need it
Improve homes with guaranteed bill savings, proper heating systems, insulation and access to free solar generation

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · 21d

On Oct 1st, your energy bills are going up AGAIN

That same day the Labour Party will conclude its Liverpool conference... but not without hearing from FPA!

👉 Let us know that you'll be there: actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

Join us to protest against energy price hikes at Labour Conference - 2 weeks today!

Weds 1st October 2025, 9.30-2.30, Wheel of Liverpool, L34FN. QR code to RSVP overlaid over a photo of a Fuel Poverty Action Energy For All demonstration.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Trade unionists and campaigners come together to tackle rise of the far right and climate crisis

The Workers Planet event in Brighton during TUC Congress is a one day festival of class politics, climate justice, and radical solidarity
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Trade unionists and campaigners come together to tackle rise of the far right and climate crisis

The Workers Planet event in Brighton during TUC Congress, a one day festival of class politics, climate justice, and radical solidarity.

www.thecanary.co

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚀 This Sunday! Get your ticket: workersplanet.org 😍

@climatejusticeuk.bsky.social @tippingpointuk.bsky.social @gndrising.bsky.social @cacctu.bsky.social

A one day festival of class politics and radical solidarity: Workers Planet

Sunday the 7th of September, 10.30am - late, Brighton.

1 WEEK TO GO. Get your tickets workersplanet.org

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The Poverty Alliance @povertyalliance.org · Sep 2

It's wrong that so many people can't afford to heat their homes. Along with @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social thousands of people will come together in #Edinburgh on #Oct25 to say #ScotlandDemandsBetter, with a real social tariff that makes energy affordable for all.

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Our new guest blog by @stopcambo.bsky.social is a must-read: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/why-rosebank...

"New drilling in the North Sea won’t shield us from price spikes – it just locks us into a volatile energy source that has in recent years become unaffordable for millions of people" 💯

Why Rosebank Is a Disaster for Energy Bills, the Public Purse and the Climate | Fuel Poverty Action

Developing Rosebank oil field pollute our air and do nothing to lower our energy bills or boost energy supplies, explains Lauren MacDonald.

www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · Jul 11

#BlueSky

Hello all it’s @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social we are a grass roots campaigning group who campaign using the social model of disability

We’ve been campaigning fir 15 years on the erosion of disabled people’s rights

Give us #FF
@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
@fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · Jul 10

🚨 Our new guest blog by @stopcambo.bsky.social is a must-read: www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/why-rosebank...

"New drilling in the North Sea won’t shield us from price spikes – it just locks us into a volatile energy source that has in recent years become unaffordable for millions of people" 💯

Why Rosebank Is a Disaster for Energy Bills, the Public Purse and the Climate | Fuel Poverty Action

Developing Rosebank oil field pollute our air and do nothing to lower our energy bills or boost energy supplies, explains Lauren MacDonald.

www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · Jul 7

SHOCKING 🤯: Oil giant Equinor is spending more than £200,000 to sponsor science classrooms in Shetland.

This is a clear move to dilute concerns about further drilling in the area closest to Rosebank, just as the UK govt gets ready to make another decision on the field.

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Fuel Poverty Action @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social · Jun 30

✍️ New guest blog 🤩

Pam Flynn from the NW Pensioners Association reflects on how your effective campaigning has won a partial U-turn on winter fuel payments 💪

But is means testing one of life's essentials defensible, or downright dangerous? 👀👇
www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk/winter-fuel-...

Winter Fuel Payments - has Labour's rethink gone far enough? | Fuel Poverty Action

Pam Flynn, Chair of the North West Pensioners Association, responds to Labour's partial U-turn on means testing Winter Fuel Payments.

www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk

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