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Oil-drilling controversy in Seattle stirs old bitterness Alaska
2015-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: A month ago, the Alaska House of Representatives took time out from struggling to forge a state budget in the face of plummeting oil prices to talk about Washington state. For nearly an hour, they debated the wording of a five-page resolution that blasted Evergreen State politicians for their opposition to Shells offshore oil exploration in the Arctic and mockingly called for a different tack on combating climate change. Rather than try to block offshore oil development in the Arctic, the...
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Shell oil rig arrives Seattle waters amid protests, permit controversy
2015-05-15 01:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The first of two Royal Dutch Shell drilling rigs slated for Arctic oil exploration arrived in Seattle on Thursday as environmental activists geared up for days of protests over plans to store the equipment at the city's port. Shell is planning to use Seattle as a base to store and maintain the rigs and other equipment as it resumes exploration and drilling this summer in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, where it has not drilled since a mishap-filled 2012 season. The decision to resume drilling,...
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Controversy over Chicago pipeline project won't stall Wisconsin Energy-Integrys deal: Klappa
2015-05-07 12:00:17| Energy - Topix.net
Controversy over a multi-billion-dollar gas main replacement program in Chicago will not delay Wisconsin Energy Corp.'s planned acquisition of the gas mains' owner Integrys Energy Group , Wisconsin Energy chairman and CEO Gale Klappa said Tuesday. Integrys owns Peoples Gas, which is embarking on a natural gas pipe replacement program that has seen its projected costs more than double to $4.6 billion from $2.2 billion in 2009, Crain's Chicago Business reported.
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Leading group of climate change deniers accused of creating 'fake controversy'
2015-04-26 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The UKs most prominent climate change denial group is launching an inquiry into the integrity of global surface temperature records. The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), established by notable climate-change sceptic Lord Lawson, announced an international team of eminent climatologists, physicists and statisticians would investigate the reliability of the current data. Professor Terence Kealey, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, has been appointed chair of...
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Amid controversy, construction of telescope in Hawaii halted
2015-04-08 10:37:17| Airlines - Topix.net
Hawaii Gov. David Ige said Tuesday, April 7, 2015, that the Thirty Meter Telescope is stopping construction at Maun... . FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, Department of Land and Natural Resources officers arrest a protester on the road to Thirty Meter Telescope building site on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hil... .
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