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United Kingdom: Fracking faces legal challenge from Lancashire farmer & Greenpeace
2013-10-14 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Lancashire dairy farmer has joined forces with Greenpeace to launch a challenge to fracking in England. The environmental charity is working with people in Lancashire and the West Sussex village of Balcombe whose homes are near sites where the energy company Cuadrilla is looking at using hydraulic fracturing to extract shale gas and oil. Andrew Pemberton, who supplies milk to 3,000 households in Lytham on the Lancashire coast, said he had joined the campaign because he would lose his livelihood...
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United Kingdom: The Government's answer to global warming? Cold feet
2013-10-13 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: It is now close to a month since my dear friends and colleagues were taken at knife-point from our ship, Arctic Sunrise. A day earlier, Russian security forces fired live ammo into the water around their small inflatable boat as they peacefully demonstrated against the first oil rig to attempt drilling in the Arctic waters to the north of Russia. They are now being held in cold cells for 23 hours a day in Murmansk detention centre, in the biggest city inside the Arctic Circle, while we wait to...
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United Kingdom: Chris Packham: 'I don't like myself enough to want to reproduce'
2013-10-13 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Chris Packham has revealed that his acute self-criticism has left him reluctant to have children. The naturalist, TV presenter and author told Desert Island Discs: "I don't like myself enough to want to reproduce myself." He added: "I'm very self-critical and I think that that's a healthy thing because I want to continually improve what I try to do. "To do that you need to be self-critical, so it's difficult for me to perceive any success in anything I do." Packham also disclosed that...
United Kingdom: Biscathorpe protest over oil drilling plans
2013-10-13 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Residents in Lincolnshire are holding a protest walk against a company's plans to drill for oil in a field close to their homes. Egdon Resources Ltd wants planning permission for an exploratory well at land at Biscathorpe, near Louth. The firm said it was "always open and transparent" with planned operations and stated that "no fracking would take place" in the area. Lincolnshire County Council is due to consider the application next month. 'Democratic processes' Local environmental...
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United Kingdom: Wind farms are 'value for money', Ed Davey says
2013-10-13 04:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: A growing public backlash against green energy levies on household bills, and the spread of wind turbines across the countryside, has led senior Tories to plot radical steps to protect the landscape and cut costs for customers. Conservative ministers have drawn up a four-point plan to prevent the growth of wind farms and other forms of renewable energy such as solar power plants from blighting the countryside. David Cameron used last week's Cabinet reshuffle to promote a leading critic of wind...
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