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United Kingdom: Fracking boss Francis Egan receives bomb threat over shale gas exploration
2013-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Francis Egan, the chief executive of Cuadrilla, has send he was send an email threatening to bomb his company headquarters if he did not cease activities in the UK. Cuadrilla announced that it has started as exploratory drilling began at a site in Balcombe, West Sussex, despite anti-fracking protests by local people and activists from across the UK. Villages across the UK have said that they will block any attempts to drill in the wake of the Balcombe protests. Writing in the Mail on Sunday...
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United Kingdom: Why the 'dash for gas' has got off to a false start
2013-08-04 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For all the talk of a dash for gas, the government-backed race for a new generation of power stations has had few willing participants thus far. So the suggestion last week by the chief executive of Drax, the UK's biggest coal-fired power station, that she might invest in new gas plants was a surprise. Nonetheless, her words were hedged with a caution shared by the rest of the energy industry. "We could start to look at it. But it would depend very much on the details of the government's energy market...
United Kingdom: Lib Dem president Tim Farron warns fracking could harm countryside 'for decades'
2013-08-03 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In the first major attack on fracking by a leading member of the Coalition, Tim Farron, the Lib Dems' president, said he was "greatly worried' by the Government's "dash for shale gas' and that he would lobby for measures that would severely limit its potential development. Mr Farron's views clash strongly with those of Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary and a fellow Lib Dem. Mr Davey has said he is "excited' about the secure supply of energy and thousands of jobs that shale-gas extraction could create....
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United Kingdom: Ignore fracking protests, government tells planners
2013-08-03 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Planning authorities have been banned from considering whether renewable energy plants would be a better fit for their communities, if they receive an application for a fracking mine. Documents released by the government stress that local authorities should instead recognise that "mineral extraction is essential to local and national economies". This is despite a Department for Communities and Local Government document highlighting 16 environmental risks linked to the process, including seismic...
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United Kingdom: Make or break harvest after 18 months of pain for farmers
2013-08-03 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Farmers are hoping for the sunshine to continue to avoid another poor harvest after the worst 18 months for the industry since the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak. Last year many farmers were forced into debt after a winter drought which followed the wettest summer on record led to crops rotting in the ground. The cold spring this year means yields are expected to be down again because plants failed to get a good start. At the same time livestock farmers are recovering from the loss of thousands...
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