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Earthquake hits close to Fukushima, tremors felt as far as Tokyo
2013-11-03 12:47:59| Energy - Topix.net
Tokyo Electric Power Co workers look up the unit 4 reactor building during a media tour at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture in Japan A 5.0 earthquake was registered on Japan's east cost in a prefecture neighboring Fukushima.
Spanish coast hit by tremors may be linked to huge offshore gas storage plant
2013-10-04 15:35:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indendent: Thousands of Spanish homeowners on a 200km stretch of Mediterranean coastline have suffered a month of sleepless nights after a wave of minor earthquakes. Many people, including the countrys Minister of Industry, say a massive offshore gas storage plant could be to blame. More than 300 earthquakes, some of them as strong as 4.2 on the Richter scale, have struck the region of northern Valencia and the southern tip of Catalonia, which is not known for seismic activity. More than 20 quakes struck...
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United Kingdom: Fracking Boss Faces Growing Tremors of Resistance from Public, Press and Tories
2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: He knew it would be a tough job when he took it on last year, but Francis Egan, chief executive of fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources, could not have imagined the role would bring with it death threats and reporters turning up at his house trying to "frack" his garden. Environmentalists have been campaigning against fracking for years, but Egan's attempt to drill in the pretty West Sussex village of Balcombe has turned hydraulic fracturing (to give it is proper name) into a highly emotive subject...
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Serbia's unabated quest for coal causes tremors among mining communities
2013-04-24 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Vitomir Simic, 53, points at the faded, black and white photograph of his parents, still hanging on the wall of the home he abandoned in Radljevo, a village south-west of Belgrade, Serbia. Its modest frame hides only an inch of the giant fractures that ripped open the walls of the house where he was born, and forced him and his three children to flee. Simic works nearby in the Kolubara coal mine, helping to maintain the giant excavators that gouge the earth day and night. This relentless quest...
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