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Council gives green light for first UK fracking project five years

2016-05-25 13:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Quadrangle: Council gives green light for first UK fracking project in five years Plans to extract shale gas at a site near Kirby Misperton in Ryedale have been approved following a landmark decision by North Yorkshire County Council made despite vociferous opposition to the application by Third Energy. A succession of people living near a proposed fracking operation in North Yorkshire have told councillors they do not want to be the first community in the United Kingdom to allow the controversial gas...

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United Kingdom: Fracking is a futile betrayal of our national interest

2016-05-24 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Drinkers in the Ashfield Country Manor Hotel face a dilemma. There is no other pub in the quiet working village of Kirby Misperton in Ryedale. But the landlord has banned discussion on his premises of the very topic that people most want to talk about, because of the strong feelings it arouses. Those feelings are about to get stronger. In the face of overwhelming local opposition, North Yorkshire county council has authorised fracking operations at Kirby Misperton, and in doing so has breathed...

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Group Rallies Against Offshore Fracking in Camarillo

2016-05-24 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

KEYT: A group of a few dozen ralliers came out to Ventura County on Tuesday. It is hoping their message to keep offshore fracking out of the Santa Barbara Channel is heard loud and clear. The Sierra Club is greatly concerned about the destruction of our marine resources because of off shore fracking. This is the deadly dumping of chemicals from offshore oil platforms that are allowed to frack into the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, said Jim Hines with the Sierra Club Los Padres Chapter. The...

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Anger as council approves first United Kingdom fracking project in five years

2016-05-24 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wingatewire: Rasik Valand, Third Energy CEO, said during the council committee meeting the company sees the application approval as a "huge responsibility to delivery on our promises, not a victory". May 24 Britain's first fracked shale gas could flow this year after local government officials in northern England approved Third Energy's plans late on Monday to carry out fracking at an existing well. Third Energy says the process is safe. Fracking was suspended in the United Kingdom in 2011 following...

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