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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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United Kingdom: Green MP charged over anti-fracking protest
2013-09-25 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Dr Lucas was arrested in August when she joined hundreds of other activists staging a series of protests in the West Sussex village of Balcombe, against the controversial method of extracting shale gas. Activists allegedly blockaded the road leading to the drilling site to prevent traffic moving in and out of the area. The protests, which were largely organised by the No Dash for Gas group, sought to raise public awareness of the controversial method of gas extraction that involves pumping...
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United Kingdom: Lord Stern: IPCC report will underestimate climate change
2013-09-24 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Important factors like the melting of frozen Arctic soil, which are expected to contribute significantly to global warming, have been left out of scientists' calculations because the size of their impact remains unclear. It means that models which will be used to inform the latest international assessment of climate science, to be revealed on Friday, "substantially underestimate' the scale of the problem, Lord Stern of Brentford claimed. The former World Bank chief economist, who authored an...
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United Kingdom: Fracking protests restart after Cuadrilla seeks new drilling rights
2013-09-23 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The company at the heart of the anti-fracking protests in West Sussex on Monday confirmed that its exploratory drilling outside a village had discovered the presence of hydrocarbons, which can be used for fuel, and said further testing would be needed to ascertain flow rates. After more than two months of operations at Balcombe, Cuadrilla said that it would be clearing the site by the weekend and would be closing it off for the next few months while it applies for planning permission to measure...
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