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UK public opinion divided on fracking according to poll

2013-08-15 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology

An ICM survey commissioned by the Guardian newspaper has found that nearly 40% of UK residents would support hydraulic fracturing in their local area, while 40% said that they would oppose it.

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United Kingdom: Fracking splits public opinion down the middle, ICM poll finds

2013-08-14 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: David Cameron is likely to face resistance from voters if he aggressively pursues fracking for shale gas, new polling by the Guardian indicates. Four in 10 people would welcome hydraulic fracturing - used to extract hard-to-reach natural gas - in their local area but just as many people would oppose it, a national ICM survey commissioned by the Guardian has found. About a fifth of voters are undecided. Worryingly for Cameron, the research suggests that undecided voters could harden against...

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New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Oppose Fracking

2013-08-01 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: A majority of Californians oppose expanded fracking in the Golden State, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research foundation. As oil companies gear up to frack massive petroleum deposits in the Monterey Shale, the poll also found that 65 percent of Californians say the state should act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The poll--the second this summer to find strong California opposition to fracking--puts new pressure on state lawmakers...

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Poll finds Californians back climate change fight, skeptical on fracking

2013-08-01 06:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sacramento Bee: An overwhelming majority of Californians believe the state should act to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll, while residents narrowly oppose hydraulic fracturing and support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Climate change represents a concrete threat for a majority of Californians, according to the new Public Policy Institute of California poll. More than three-fourths of respondents -- 77 percent -- called climate change a "very serious" or "somewhat serious" threat...

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