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Anti-Fracking Activists Protest Cove Point and Dominion Climate Risks at Shareholders Meeting
2014-05-07 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Dominion executives may have been hundreds of miles away from the site of the controversial Cove Point export facility Wednesday, but they couldn`t escape the ire of those fighting against the liquefied natural gas (LNG) proposal. The anti-fracking activists voiced their opinions outside of Dominion`s annual shareholders meeting in Cleveland, OH. The Ohio Sierra Club, Ohio Student Environmental Coalition and the Energy Action Coalition organized the protest of the $3.8 million LNG site in Maryland....
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More Kuwaiti MPs resign in protest over premier's corruption scandal
2014-05-05 09:02:56| IT Services - Topix.net
Five Kuwaiti MPs have now resigned as of Sunday over the parliament's refusal to question the premier on corruption allegations, according to Agence France Presse.
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Australia: Doctors join protest against $767m Maules Creek coal mine project
2014-05-03 09:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Three doctors and a medical student have been arrested after locking themselves together as part of a NSW coal mine blockade, protesters claim. A group of 13 medical professionals and students, dubbed Medics Against Coal, spent more than four hours chained together at the Maules Creek Mine site on Saturday. Protesters oppose clearing part of the Leard State Forest to make way for the new $767 million mine, near Boggabri in the state's north-west. Medical professionals from around the country...
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44 Greenpeacers Arrested at Rotterdam Arctic Oil Protest
2014-05-01 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Early this morning, 80 Greenpeace activists confronted the tanker carrying the first shipment of oil from the Russian Arctic. During the demonstration, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was boarded by Dutch security agents in the Port of Rotterdam and 44 activists were taken into custody. The agents forcibly entered the Rainbow Warrior`s communications room and towed the ship to shore after it intercepted the Russian tanker, loaded with Arctic oil. The 258-meter-long Russian tanker Mikhail...
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Greenpeace ship captain arrested in Arctic oil protest
2014-05-01 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Dutch police have arrested the captain of a Greenpeace vessel, after activists tried to stop a Russian tanker delivering oil controversially drilled from the Arctic to a port in Rotterdam. The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior blocked the Mikhail Ulyanov tanker as it attempted to moor in the Dutch citys harbour early on Thursday morning. Police quickly boarded the vessel and arrested around 30 activists, but were unable to move the Warrior for around two hours. By this time, activists on smaller...
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