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After One Arrest, Sit In Continues Demanding Moratorium on Fracking
2013-05-22 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: After more than a hundred Illinoisans packed a hearing and rallied in the Capitol yesterday for a moratorium on fracking, they demanded a meeting with Gov. Quinn to voice their concerns about fracking. The residents from Southern Illinois and across the state pointed to how fracking will pollute the air, contaminate the water and put the health and well-being of their families at risk. Sandra Steingraber, PhD biologist, distinguished scholar at Ithaca College and founder of Concerned Health Professionals...
Quebec's minority goverment tables moratorium bill on shale gas fracking
2013-05-20 01:56:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
The Quebec government has tabled legislation which could impose a moratorium on exploration for shale gas in the St. Lawrence River valley during the next five years.
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Canada to control Arctic Council; aboriginals demand moratorium on energy
2013-05-14 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Leaders from the eight circumpolar nations will meet on Wednesday and hand chairmanship of the Arctic Council to Canada. The meeting comes after a growing number of Arctic aboriginals demanded a moratorium on energy development in the Far North.
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Indonesia: Minister confirms extension of forest moratorium
2013-05-07 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antara: Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has confirmed that the forest moratorium based on Presidential Instruction No 10/2011 which will expire this May, to be extended but he still does not know when the new regulation to be issued. "The forest moratorium has to be extended. I still don`t know when, and whether it should be expanded or not as its draft is still on the round-table discussion," Minister Hasan said here on Tuesday. One of the reasons why the moratorium about the postponement of issuance...
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Maine Committee Eyes Moratorium on Tar Sands Oil
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Journal: A bill creating a two-year moratorium on the transportation of "tar sands" oil in Maine pit environmental groups against those who say the ban would have far-reaching negative effects on the economy during testimony before the Legislature`s Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Monday. The bill, LD 1363, calls for a legislative resolve setting the moratorium while directing the state`s Department of Environmental Protection to study the potential impacts of moving oil sands, known by...
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