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Cuadrilla: Fracking Scaled Back In Balcome As Critics Attack 'Mob Rule' By Protesters

2013-08-17 03:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Fracking firm Cuadrilla has "scaled back" its controversial drilling in the West Sussex countryside in the face of fierce protests. Critics said the company had "caved to mob rule" after activists threatened direct action to disrupt the process. On Friday night, Sussex Police said the operation had cost the cash-strapped force nearly 750,000. And the RSPB joined the debate, lodging a complaint with Cuadrilla about its operation near Blackpool. Up to 1,000 activists are due to join the protest...

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Climate Change Deniers Are Fighting Back

2013-08-16 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Huffington Post: Members of Congress have gotten far too comfortable with their extreme anti-science views going unchallenged. So we knew our new campaign holding some of the biggest climate deniers in House and Senate accountable would ruffle a few feathers. But the strong reaction we're seeing is a reminder of just what we're up against, and how hard they're fighting to keep their constituents in the dark about their extreme views. Earlier this week, the League of Conservation Voters launched a nearly $2 million...

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New Zealand scales back 2020 carbon target

2013-08-16 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: The New Zealand government has been branded "a disgrace" by green campaigners after watering down its 2020 carbon reduction target. The government had previously indicated it would reduce its greenhouse gas levels by 10-20 per cent based on 1990 levels by the end of the decade. But Climate Change Minister Tim Groser today confirmed the target would be just five per cent. Defending the decision, Groser argued that a five per cent reduction was more ambitious than its first Kyoto Protocol target...

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Fracking firm scaling back operation

2013-08-16 02:39:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Energy firm Cuadrilla says it is scaling back work at an exploration site in West Sussex on police advice, as campaigners plan a protest camp.

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Waitrose Praises NFU's 'Back British' Campaign

2013-08-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - Waitrose has become the first supermarket to pledge its support to the National Farmers Union's (NFU) Back British Farming campaign.

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