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United Kingdom: Fracking row splits apart the Coalition...
2013-08-04 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Fracking has driven a rift through the Coalition as the minister in charge of it described Middle England shaking with the sound of drills. Energy Minister Michael Fallon said at a private meeting that the controversial drive for shale gas could soon extend across a vast swathe of the South. But in the first major attack on fracking by a senior member of the Coalition, Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron predicted opposition would grow stronger than the campaign against wind farms. Local...
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United Kingdom: Gas flares scare? It was a fracking joke says Tory minster as he tries to laugh off drill gaffe
2013-08-04 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Bungling Michael Fallon yesterday desperately back-pedalled after seeming to admit fracking will blight peaceful communities claiming that his comments were meant as a joke. The Energy Minister, who backs controversial plans to drill for shale gas, had presented a gloomy vision of gas flares and disruption across the South East commuter belt. He suggested even the most vocal supporters would be tested if it came to their own back yards. Telling how a shale bed with potentially massive...
United Kingdom: Fracking will meet resistance from southern nimbys, minister warns
2013-08-04 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A warning that fracking may soon lead to fierce resistance from middle-class southern nimbys has been given by the energy minister Michael Fallon. Fallon, a strong supporter of shale gas, told a private meeting in Westminster: "We are going to see how thick their rectory walls are, whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive." Fallon, who is MP for Sevenoaks in Kent, said exploratory studies for fracking were already poised to start in the north of England and were set to spread the...
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United Kingdom: Balcombe's eco-warriors have the limelight, but a strong local contingent wants to be heard
2013-08-04 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: "I was reading the Telegraph on the train and I noticed a little paragraph saying, 'Cuadrilla to Frack in Sussex'. I knew this was the company that caused the earthquakes in Lancashire, so I thought, 'How interesting'. Then I looked down the story and saw they were coming to my village...' He smiles and steps out of the way as a battalion of police officers comes past. We are on the road just south of Balcombe in West Sussex, where the oil and gas company Cuadrilla is trying to drill a well, and...
United Kingdom: Michael Fallon defends fracking comments
2013-08-04 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Energy minister Michael Fallon has defended comments about fracking, in which he appeared to suggest the process would affect those living near gas drilling sites. Mr Fallon told a private meeting it would test "how thick their rectory walls are" and "whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive". In the past, he has described shale gas as an "exciting new energy resource". The Tory minister told the BBC his latest comments were "light hearted". His remarks, reported in the Mail...
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