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United Kingdom: Fracking fears in the Home Counties
2013-05-09 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Cuadrilla Resources plans to drill an exploratory well in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex to find out if there is enough oil to drill, or if that fails, gas to extract by fracking. The company is the only one to have fracked for shale gas in the UK, prompting concerns. However Cuadrilla told a meeting of Balcombe Parish Council it expects to find oil at the site, and the possibility of finding gas and therefore fracking was "unlikely" and it had no immediate plans to frack. Rodney Saunders,...
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Ukraine Bans Belarusian Pigs and Pork on ASF Fears
2013-05-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UKRAINE - The veterinary service has temporarily banned the import of pigs and pig meat from Belarus because of suspected cases of African swine fever (ASF).
Malta PM dismisses bailout fears
2013-05-08 01:46:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Why Malta reckons it can weather the eurozone storms
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In parts of Plains, drought fears nag for third year
2013-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Two years of heat and little rain already have drained Oklahoma agriculture, including a cotton field near Pocasset, above, of more than $1.1 billion in direct losses. The ongoing drought is creating a "sense of despair" in the region, says Ryan McMullen, state director of USDA rural development, much like when landowners abandoned their property in places like Guymon, Okla., in 1937 during the Dust Bowl, top. (Sue Ogrocki, Associated Press (above); AP file (top)) FREDERICK, Okla. -- When Kent Walker...
Pollution fears over proposed nickle plant in Noumea
2013-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ONE News: New Caledonia is poised to become one of the world's worst polluters per capita with plans to build another coal plant to power nickel production. The country already hosts one nickel treatment plant powered by coal, and plans to build another one in three years could see carbon emissions almost triple to 36.8 tonnes. "It's unacceptable," Martine Comaille from Ensemble Pour La Planete said. "We are deeply against this coal power plant because New Caledonia will be a very big contributor to...
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