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United Kingdom: Fracking splits public opinion down the middle, ICM poll finds

2013-08-14 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: David Cameron is likely to face resistance from voters if he aggressively pursues fracking for shale gas, new polling by the Guardian indicates. Four in 10 people would welcome hydraulic fracturing - used to extract hard-to-reach natural gas - in their local area but just as many people would oppose it, a national ICM survey commissioned by the Guardian has found. About a fifth of voters are undecided. Worryingly for Cameron, the research suggests that undecided voters could harden against...

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United Kingdom: Fracking row splits apart the Coalition...

2013-08-04 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Mail: Fracking has driven a rift through the Coalition as the minister in charge of it described Middle England shaking with the sound of drills. Energy Minister Michael Fallon said at a private meeting that the controversial drive for shale gas could soon extend across a vast swathe of the South. But in the first major attack on fracking by a senior member of the Coalition, Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron predicted opposition would grow stronger than the campaign against wind farms. Local...

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LightSquared splits $3 billion exit financing

2013-07-03 22:34:43| Wireless - Topix.net

Wireless broadband communications company LightSquared Inc is splitting its proposed $3 billion senior secured exit term loan into a $2 billion first-lien loan and $1 billion second-lien tranche, sources told Thomson Reuters LPC.

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News Corp officially splits in two

2013-06-28 22:30:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, officially separates into two companies, splitting its publishing arm from its entertainment division.

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