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United Kingdom: Scrapping HS2 rail link would be a 'disaster', warns transport secretary
2013-09-28 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Abandoning plans to build the 42.6bn HS2 high-speed rail line would be a national disaster, the cabinet minister in charge of the project has said, as he admits for the first time that it will be more difficult to press ahead without the Labour party's support. In an interview with the Observer, the transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, insists that he, David Cameron and the chancellor, George Osborne, all remain fully committed to building the new line from London to Birmingham, Manchester...
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United Kingdom: Caroline Lucas set for fracking protest court hearing
2013-09-26 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has defended her right to protest against shale oil and gas exploration, after she was charged over her part in protests at Balcombe, West Sussex. The MP for Brighton Pavilion was among a group of demonstrators arrested during a day of anti-fracking protests in Balcombe, Sussex, last month. The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed yesterday that Lucas would be charged with breaching a police order on public assemblies and wilful obstruction of the highway. She...
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United Kingdom: Peter Mandelson criticises Ed Miliband's energy plan
2013-09-25 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Lord Mandelson took aim at Ed Miliband's call for a 20-month freeze on gas and electricity prices on Wednesday, claiming that the Labour leader's demand for a resetting of the energy market could create the impression that the party's industrial policy was going backwards. The former business secretary suggested that Miliband's speech, widely praised across the Labour party, could be seen as taking the party back to a previous era in which the options for industrial policy amounted to either state...
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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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