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Campaigners Blame Antibiotic Resistance on Farmers
2013-09-18 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Campaigning group, Food & Water Watch, says the latest CDC report on antibiotic resistance in the US should be a 'wake-up' call on 'factory farms'.
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Australia: Climate campaigners start 'hunger strike' to block Queensland coal project
2013-08-30 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's coal industry is being targeted by a range of campaigns from divestment to civil disobedience Share Tweet this Email Andrew Bartlett, left, and Ben Pennings, who are hunger striking in Brisbane in protest at a Queensland coal rail project Ben Pennings has recruited six so far but, according to his campaign group's website, another 150 people are going to join for a day or two in support. "We will only have water, and tea with no milk or sugar," says the 41-year-old environment...
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Anti-coal seam gas campaigners fear water safeguards will be dumped
2013-08-20 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New environmental safeguards aimed at protecting water resources could be ditched before they are applied to more than a handful of coal and gas projects, with a new analysis showing nearly 40 developments have yet to be assessed for their impact on water. A study by the Lock the Gate alliance, a coalition of anti-coal seam gas campaigners, shows that of 43 coal and gas developments likely to impact water supplies, just four of them have had the so-called "water trigger" assessment applied to them....
United Kingdom: Anti-fracking campaigners shut down Cuadrilla HQ
2013-08-19 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Twenty protesters have targeted the headquarters of energy company Cuadrilla by blockading it with their bodies. There are two people inside the building in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and they are hanging banners off it saying "Reclaim the Power" and "Power to the People". The company, which has a license for hydraulic fracturing or fracking to extract gas from shale, issued a statement saying: "Three protesters have forced their way into our offices. The police are in attendance and are dealing...
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Fracking campaigners like MMR scaremongers, says Church of England
2013-08-16 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It also publicly accused opponents of shale gas exploration of ignoring the interests of the poor, who might benefit from cheaper energy bills and jobs. And while strongly denying seeking to gain financially from fracking by reasserting centuries-old mineral rights, it refused to rule out the possibility of drilling on Church-owned land. In signs of a growing split within the Church over its approach to the controversial technique, senior officials also appeared to criticise one diocese that said...
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