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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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United Kingdom: Caroline Lucas released on bail after arrest
2013-08-20 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP, has been released on bail after being arrested with dozens of other people for an anti-fracking protest that she attended because she felt the government "isn't listening" to opposition to the controversial technology. The former Green party leader said she would find out next week whether she would be charged for her part in a blockade of the energy company Cuadrilla's site in Balcombe, West Sussex, where it is undertaking exploratory drilling for oil. Her son...
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Vandals Strike United Tribes Campus In Rapid City
2013-08-20 01:48:46| Energy - Topix.net
Vandals struck the Rapid City campus of United Tribes Technical College over the weekend, three days after the Bismarck, N.D.-based school held a grand opening celebration for its Black Hills Learning Center.
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United Kingdom: Go back to the drawing board on climate policy, business tells politicians
2013-08-19 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Big business wants the main parties to go back to the drawing board on climate policy after the election to try to come up with an agreed plan for an economically efficient way to reduce Australia's emissions and offer investment certainty. In what amounts to a vote of no confidence in the environmental policies of both major parties, the Business Council of Australia says the government's independent research body, the Productivity Commission, should be asked to have another look at the cheapest...
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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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