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United Kingdom: High Street store Lush is main financial backer of Frack Off
2013-08-03 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Lush, which has 105 stores in the UK and Ireland, has given 20,000 in charitable donations to the protest group behind this week's demonstration against test drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex. The company has such close links to Frack Off that four of Lush's five-strong campaigns team have been given time off work to join the protest in Balcombe. One of them, Lush's head of global campaigns Tamsin Omond, was arrested on Thursday for chaining herself to a fire engine used to block the entrance...
United Kingdom: Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger
2013-08-03 03:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, the first example of what its creator says could provide an answer to global food shortages and help combat climate change, will be fried in a pan and tasted by two volunteers. The burger is the result of years of research by Dutch scientist Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University...
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United Kingdom: Balcombe fracking protesters vow to fight on as drilling begins
2013-08-02 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Drilling for oil started on Friday just outside the small village of Balcombe, in West Sussex, as oil and gas company Cuadrilla completed tests of its equipment and protesters chanted outside, surrounded by police. This is the first time Cuadrilla, which is pioneering the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" in the UK, has been able to start its exploratory drilling. The company says is not planning to frack the rocks under Balcombe at this stage. Its geological assessments...
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United Kingdom: Aerial footage: Fracking test drilling begins in Balcombe
2013-08-02 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Cuadrilla's oil drilling project has been subject to days of delays because of high-profile protests designed to halt delivery of trucks and equipment to the plant. Today a Cuadrilla spokesman said: "We started test drilling at 11.15am, and we will do a 3,000ft vertical well. We will be there for two to three months." Campaigners fear the project at Lower Stumble, near Balcombe, West Sussex, could lead Cuadrilla to go on to conduct hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The controversial method of...
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United Kingdom: Fracking uproar peer causes further derision with geography revision
2013-08-01 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Tory peer who provoked uproar for saying that fracking should be carried out in the "desolate" north-east of England has prompted further derision after he corrected himself, saying that he meant the north-west. Lord Howell, who advised William Hague on energy policy until April and is the father-in-law of the chancellor, George Osborne, drew gasps of astonishment in the House of Lords on Tuesday for suggesting that the controversial form of gas extraction could take place in the north-east...
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