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United Kingdom: Ignore fracking protests, government tells planners
2013-08-03 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Planning authorities have been banned from considering whether renewable energy plants would be a better fit for their communities, if they receive an application for a fracking mine. Documents released by the government stress that local authorities should instead recognise that "mineral extraction is essential to local and national economies". This is despite a Department for Communities and Local Government document highlighting 16 environmental risks linked to the process, including seismic...
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Ubs Ag Reiterates Buy Rating for United Technologies Corp.
2013-08-03 19:35:29| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by equities research analysts at UBS AG in a research note issued to investors on Friday, Stock Ratings Network.com reports.
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United Kingdom: Make or break harvest after 18 months of pain for farmers
2013-08-03 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Farmers are hoping for the sunshine to continue to avoid another poor harvest after the worst 18 months for the industry since the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak. Last year many farmers were forced into debt after a winter drought which followed the wettest summer on record led to crops rotting in the ground. The cold spring this year means yields are expected to be down again because plants failed to get a good start. At the same time livestock farmers are recovering from the loss of thousands...
United Kingdom: High Street store Lush is main financial backer of Frack Off
2013-08-03 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lush, which has 105 stores in the UK and Ireland, has given 20,000 in charitable donations to the protest group behind this week's demonstration against test drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex. The company has such close links to Frack Off that four of Lush's five-strong campaigns team have been given time off work to join the protest in Balcombe. One of them, Lush's head of global campaigns Tamsin Omond, was arrested on Thursday for chaining herself to a fire engine used to block the entrance...
United Kingdom: Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger
2013-08-03 03:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, the first example of what its creator says could provide an answer to global food shortages and help combat climate change, will be fried in a pan and tasted by two volunteers. The burger is the result of years of research by Dutch scientist Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University...
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