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United Kingdom: Anti-fracking activists arrested at oil drilling site
2013-07-26 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The demonstration, which began on Thursday, is against plans by fracking company Cuadrilla to explore for oil and gas in the area. Local residents, including mothers and children, set up gazebos and bunting by the roadside, while some protesters stopped lorries from entering the area by playing cricket outside the site in Balcombe, Sussex. However, at midday on Friday, 90 police arrived and told around 12 protesters, who had linked arms on a log across the entrance to the site, that they must...
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FBI Investigates Tar Sands Activists as Eco-Terrorists
2013-07-22 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: As people in the Midwest and the East Coast broil in blistering temperatures, theyre reminded of how it might relate to global warming. But rather than using big data to relay the effects of climate change, a University of Minnesota undergrad is illustrating the point with his cello. Through a process referred to as data sonification, Daniel Crawford used global annual surface air temperature data from NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies and converted it into a range of musical notes....
Chevron granted access to environmental activists' email accounts
2013-07-15 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Oil giant Chevron has been granted access to "more than 100 email accounts, including environmental activists, journalists, and attorneys" involved in a long-running dispute involving damage "caused by oil drilling" in Ecuador, reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which, with EarthRights International (ERI), is opposing the New York court's decision says: After years of litigation, an Ecuadorian court last year imposed a judgment of over $17 billion...
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Greenpeace activists break into EDF nuclear power plant in France - video
2013-07-15 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Footage released by Greenpeace shows anti-nuclear slogans projected onto the walls of the Tricastin nuclear power plant in south-east France. More than 20 activists broke into the site at dusk on Sunday, one of the most important nuclear sites in France. EDF says the protesters did not get access to the site's two nuclear reactors and had no impact on safety
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Greenpeace activists break into French nuclear plant
2013-07-15 09:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Around 30 Greenpeace activists climbed fences to break into an EDF nuclear power plant in southern France at dawn on Monday, saying they wanted to expose security flaws and demand its closure. The activists, dressed in red, said they reached the walls of two reactors at the Tricastin plant, one of France's oldest. EDF denied they had got into any "sensitive areas" and said production was not affected. Interior Minister Manuel Valls called for an investigation into the intrusion which raised...
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