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United Kingdom: Green MP Caroline Lucas charged over anti-fracking protest
2013-09-25 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Green party MP, Caroline Lucas, defended her right to peacefully protest on Wednesday after it was announced she faced criminal charges over her part in an anti-fracking demonstration in Sussex. Lucas spoke after the Crown Prosecution Service said it had carefully examined the evidence and decided it was in the public interest to charge the MP for obstructing the highway and failing to comply with a police request to move. Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil...
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United Kingdom: Caroline Lucas to be charged over anti-fracking protest
2013-09-25 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Green party MP Caroline Lucas is to be charged over her part in an anti-fracking demonstration in Sussex. Lucas was arrested last month at Balcombe where campaigners have been protesting about oil drilling in the village amid fears that it could lead to fracking in the area. The Crown Prosecution Service said Lucas was to be charged with breaching a police order on public assemblies and wilful obstruction of the highway. Nigel Pilkington, a senior lawyer with the CPS, said: "After careful...
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United Kingdom: Caroline Lucas released on bail after arrest
2013-08-20 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP, has been released on bail after being arrested with dozens of other people for an anti-fracking protest that she attended because she felt the government "isn't listening" to opposition to the controversial technology. The former Green party leader said she would find out next week whether she would be charged for her part in a blockade of the energy company Cuadrilla's site in Balcombe, West Sussex, where it is undertaking exploratory drilling for oil. Her son...
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Green MP Caroline Lucas arrested in Balcombe anti-fracking protest
2013-08-20 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: People are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action Hundreds of activists blockaded the Balcombe oil drilling site in Sussex owned by the fracking company Cuadrilla, as well as its Lichfield headquarters and the offices of its PR firm in London. Demonstrators hung banners at the country home of the Conservative Lord Howells, who stirred controversy by suggesting the "desolate" north should be fracked, and attempted to put up a small wind turbine at the home...
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Japan's Newest American Brand Name: U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
2013-08-09 06:45:46| Beverages - Topix.net
McDonald's, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Mondale, Kennedy...Japan's love affair with popular American names will no doubt continue with the announcement by President Barack Obama that he was appointing Caroline Kennedy to be Ambassador.
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