Fossil Fuel Resistance
Fossil Fuel Resistance (FFR) is H350’s lead action group for the Getting Off Gas campaign and the AI & Data Centres campaign, focuses on climate activism and keeps up to date with the latest climate news around Hamilton.
If you want to be a part of this group, contact us.
Getting Off Gas
More information about the campaign can be found here.
Our mission is to oppose the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures by:
- Countering disinformation,
- Raising awareness of the harm that Enbridge is causing in our community,
- Calling out the destructive policies of our provincial government,
- Promoting alternatives to gas appliances, and
- Working with partner organizations towards increasing the production of renewables in Ontario.
AI & Data Centres
Find more information about this campaign here.
The explosion in AI data centres across North America have come with a huge expansion in fracked-gas power plants operating in cities and causing disastrous harms locally and globally to our climate.
Our group will continue to monitor proposals pitched in Hamilton, and stand in solidarity with other groups across Canada that are fighting against proposals in their communities, industries, or traditional lands.
Green Steel in Hamilton
We continue to advocate for a phase-out of fossil fuel powered steel making in Hamilton and a transition to green steel production!
Progress on ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s decarbonization plans have stalled despite $950 million dollars in public subsidies on the table.
Hamilton 350 has long been critical of Enbridge’s role in the original plan, essentially getting a free pipeline that they would own and pollute from indefinitely, all at public expense. We are hopeful that any future plans coming forward to decarbonize Hamilton’s steel industry will move directly to green (a.k.a. fully electric power inputs, no burning of methane “natural” gas involved”) steel making right here in our city instead of a pipeline to buy fracked gas from the United States.
Province-wide resistance to Doug Ford
Doug Ford has propped up fossil fuels, particularly fracked gas monopoly Enbridge, at every turn, from overturning the Ontario Energy Board trying to remove public subsidies from the corporate giant, to stopping municipalities from creating green building standards, to ripping out renewable energy infrastructure and encouraging dirty gas plants over new, cheap wind & solar.