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United Kingdom: Q&A: How communities could reap benefits from shale gas fracking
2013-08-11 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: What is fracking? The term is shorthand for "hydraulic fracturing', a method of extracting oil and gas from the ground. The process involves drilling a well then pumping water, sand and chemicals down it at high pressure. This fractures the rock, helping to extract the oil and gas within it. Fracking for oil and gas trapped in "shale' rocks is a new process in Britain. But another, less intensive form of fracking -- involving fewer chemicals -- has been going on for decades to help extract...
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United Kingdom: Protesters unite over Cuadrilla fracking plans in South Downs National Park
2013-08-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Protesters against fracking in one of Britain's national parks were joined yesterday by residents from a village that could become the second flashpoint over the controversial energy strategy. The demonstration against fracking in Balcombe, West Sussex, was joined by residents from Fernhurst, another village in the South Downs National Park. Residents in Balcombe are concerned about plans by the energy firm Cuadrilla, whose chairman is the the former BP chief executive Lord Browne, to explore shale...
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United Kingdom: Agriculture market stoking 5trn asset bubble, study warns
2013-08-09 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Investors are facing fresh calls to build up the resilience of their agricultural portfolios, after a major new report showed $8trn (5.2trn) worth of farming assets could become uninsurable owing to environmental risks linked to climate change. The report, released today by the University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, aims to show the scale of the asset bubble faced by the agricultural sector, which could leave huge levels of capital exposed to the physical and economic...
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United Kingdom: There's no room for wind farms but plenty for fracking, says PM
2013-08-08 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In comments that will delight rural communities opposed to wind farms, the Prime Minister said that "there is a limited potential for onshore wind' in the UK. Mr Cameron instead said that he wants the UK to focus on shale gas exploration, nuclear power and offshore wind. With anti-fracking protests continuing in parts of the countryside, the Prime Minister said he wanted to "dispel myths' about the controversial technique and said that there is "no question of having earthquakes and fire coming...
United Kingdom: Fracking Boss Faces Growing Tremors of Resistance from Public, Press and Tories
2013-08-08 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: He knew it would be a tough job when he took it on last year, but Francis Egan, chief executive of fracking firm Cuadrilla Resources, could not have imagined the role would bring with it death threats and reporters turning up at his house trying to "frack" his garden. Environmentalists have been campaigning against fracking for years, but Egan's attempt to drill in the pretty West Sussex village of Balcombe has turned hydraulic fracturing (to give it is proper name) into a highly emotive subject...
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