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Protests grow against Internet.org
2015-05-19 13:31:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Sixty seven digital rights campaign groups sign a letter calling on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to rethink his "free mobile data" Internet.org initiative.
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India Moves Forward on Largest Reactor Park Despite Protests
2015-05-18 21:35:33| ENR.com: Headline News
India commits to developing nuclear power further.
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Seattle flotilla protests Shell's Arctic drilling plans
2015-05-16 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of activists in kayaks and small boats fanned out on a Seattle bay on Saturday to protest plans by Royal Dutch Shell to resume oil exploration in the Arctic and keep two of its drilling rigs stored in the city's port. Environmental groups have vowed to disrupt the Anglo-Dutch oil company's efforts to use the Seattle as a home base as it outfits the rigs to return to the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, saying drilling in the remote Arctic waters could lead to an ecological catastrophe. Demonstrators...
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Shell oil rig arrives Seattle waters amid protests, permit controversy
2015-05-15 01:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The first of two Royal Dutch Shell drilling rigs slated for Arctic oil exploration arrived in Seattle on Thursday as environmental activists geared up for days of protests over plans to store the equipment at the city's port. Shell is planning to use Seattle as a base to store and maintain the rigs and other equipment as it resumes exploration and drilling this summer in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, where it has not drilled since a mishap-filled 2012 season. The decision to resume drilling,...
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Obama faces trade protests at Nike: "Just don't do it"
2015-05-07 19:11:34| Footwear - Topix.net
"Just don't do it," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a critic of the trade pact who announced his bid this week for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. "Nike epitomizes why disastrous unfettered free-trade policies during the past four decades have failed American workers, eroded our manufacturing base and increased income and wealth inequality in this country," Sanders wrote to Obama urging him to cancel the visit.
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