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British anti-fracking occupation will continue
2013-09-19 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: British opponents of fracking will continue to occupy the side of a road in a village 35 miles south of London - and they won`t have to fear being arrested for trespassing. A court ruled that a local council`s eviction notice was flawed. The encampment of anti-fracking protesters in the village of Balcombe has become a symbolic occupation that at times has swollen to thousands of people. More than 100 have been arrested during protests since July. It`s the highest-profile battle in a war being...
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Anti-Fracking Groups Greet Obama On New York Tour
2013-08-23 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Anti-fracking activists confronted President Barack Obama as he toured upstate New York on Friday. Organizers reported that more than 500 protesters showed up to Obama's town hall event at Binghamton University, where the president was speaking on education. "I think the key message we wanted to get across through the whole tour was that New Yorkers don't want this," said Alex Beauchamp, Northeast regional director at the environmental group Food and Water Watch, which coordinated the protests...
United Kingdom: Lucas: Anti-fracking demo action decision 'not taken lightly'
2013-08-20 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Green Party MP Caroline Lucas was among more than 30 people arrested when anti-fracking campaigners staged a series of protests around the country. Dr Lucas said her decision to take direct action and join the Balcombe demonstration "wasn't taken lightly". She told ITV's Daybreak: "I do have a very privileged voice and taking this kind of action isn't something I do lightly but this comes at the end of having tried many, many different ways of raising this issue in Parliament - I've managed to...
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Green MP Caroline Lucas arrested in Balcombe anti-fracking protest
2013-08-20 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: People are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action Hundreds of activists blockaded the Balcombe oil drilling site in Sussex owned by the fracking company Cuadrilla, as well as its Lichfield headquarters and the offices of its PR firm in London. Demonstrators hung banners at the country home of the Conservative Lord Howells, who stirred controversy by suggesting the "desolate" north should be fracked, and attempted to put up a small wind turbine at the home...
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United Kingdom: A day on the anti-fracking frontline in Balcombe - video
2013-08-19 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scuffles broke out with police as hundreds of protesters blocked access to Cuadrilla's test-drilling site in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex. While many played drums and sang, clashes broke out with police as they tried to move protesters away from the gates. It was the first of two days of 'mass civil disobedience'
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