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Kalamazoo Activist Could Face Federal Charges for Enbridge Pipeline Protest

2013-12-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Vancouver Observer: After Chris Wahmhoff broke up with his first girlfriend, he went down to the Kalamazoo River to think. When his grandfather died, he went looking for comfort in the same place. He has spent the better part of his life living within a few hundred feet of the river, but when he went down to the water last June, it was for a different reason. On June 24--his 35th birthday--Wahmhoff climbed into a section of Enbridges Line 6B pipeline. When he got out 10 hours later, he was arrested and charged with...

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Ikea wolf becomes HK protest symbol

2013-12-10 13:42:00| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

A stuffed toy wolf stocked by Swedish furniture giant Ikea sells out in in Hong Kong, after it appears to have become an unlikely symbol of protest.

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Chevron halts Romania shale work after protest

2013-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: U.S. oil major Chevron halted exploration works for shale gas in eastern Romania for the second time in two months on Saturday after anti-fracking protesters broke through wire mesh fences around the site. Thousands of people have rallied across Romania in recent months to protest against government support for shale gas exploration and separate plans to set up Europe's largest open cast gold mine in a small Carpathian town. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates Romania could...

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VIDEO: Fast food workers in pay protest

2013-12-05 09:06:04| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

US workers in the fast food industry are planning a wave of strikes demanding pay of $15 per hour, a day after President Obama called the growing gap between the rich and poor the "defining challenge of our time".

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