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Kalamazoo Woman Protests Enbridge Pipeline Replacement Near Marcellus

2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

MLive: A Kalamazoo woman is halting tree clearing construction by sitting on a plywood platform, suspended from a tree approximately 40 feet in the air, to protest the Enbridge Line 6B replacement project on Wednesday morning. The woman is a member of the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands, which has been protesting Enbridge's pipeline replacement project throughout the summer. Members have been arrested for similar stints. The protest is taking place at the Crane Pond Game Area, where the Canadian...

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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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Balcombe oil drilling begins after anti-fracking protests cause delay

2013-08-02 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Drilling for oil close to the West Sussex village of Balcombe has begun following a week of blockades and protests by anti-fracking activists who fear that the possible use of the extraction method could lead to the pollution of water courses. Cuadrilla, the oil and gas exploration company headed by the former BP boss Lord Browne, said work started at around 11.30am on Friday and drills would penetrate more than 900 metres (3,000ft) into the Sussex shale to test for the availability of oil reserves....

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Fracking firm begins tests at Balcombe oil site as protests enter ninth day

2013-08-02 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The energy firm Cuadrilla has started testing equipment ahead of exploratory oil drilling in West Sussex as anti-fracking protests at the site entered a ninth day. The project has been subject to days of delays because of protests led by Frack Off campaigners designed to halt delivery of equipment to the site. On Friday a Cuadrilla spokesman said: "Testing of equipment started last night but we haven't started drilling yet." Drilling could start later on Friday. Campaigners fear the project at...

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