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United Kingdom: After bribes for wind farms communities are offered money for fracking
2013-03-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: George Osborne, the Chancellor, announced a number of incentives to encourage companies to start hydraulic fracturing -- or 'fracking' -- to extract the valuable fossil fuel. He said companies will receive tax breaks on the profits from shale gas fields, especially at the beginning to encourage them to drill. He also said communities should receive 'benefits' to encourage them to allow planning, but failed to say if the money will come from the company profits or the Government. "Shale gas...
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United Kingdom: Fracking communities should get incentives, says minister
2013-03-18 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Communities near shale gas fracking sites should be given handouts to accept drilling in their area, a government minister has said. The suggestion is markedly similar to a proposal made by the fracking company Cuadrilla in a letter to the energy minister John Hayes, released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act, for taxpayers' money to be offered as a "quid pro quo" to help communities accept wells on their doorstep. In the 11-page letter to Hayes in November last year, the...
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Communities Begin to Wake to Seniors' Housing Needs
2013-03-18 18:17:00| National Real Estate Investor
Seniors housing demographic norms are shifting, as people live longer, work longer and decide more often that staying in the community, near current family and friends, is preferable to moving.read more
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Communities Begin to Wake to Seniors Housing Needs
2013-03-18 18:07:00| National Real Estate Investor
Seniors housing demographic norms are shifting, as people live longer, work longer and decide more often that staying in the community, near current family and friends, is preferable to moving, pushing many states to realize they will also have to plan for the coming wave of baby boomers living needs.
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Coastal communities need plans for warmer world
2013-03-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Poughkeepsie Journal: On March 6, the National Climate Seminar hosted a conversation on After Sandy, Whats Next? with Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate scientist and assistant director of climate research and analysis at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Using Hurricane Sandy as a case study, Ekwurzel explained how coastal communities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the combined effects of both sea-level rise and extreme weather events. Ekwurzel also explained the possible solutions that coastal communities can...
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