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United Kingdom: Police drafted in to boost security at fracking protest
2013-08-17 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Campaigners from the No Dash to Gas environmental group joined anti-fracking activists already there, erecting around 150 tents on a makeshift campsite about a mile from the drilling project. Several activists manned the gate at the West Sussex site to vet people arriving. Officers from Sussex Police, Thames Valley Police and other forces kept watch from outside the gate of the land which is being used without the owner's permission. A 23-year-old man was arrested in connection with threats...
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United Kingdom: Anti-fracking firebrand and his brother the senior barrister
2013-08-17 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Jamie Kelsey-Fry, 49, a leading Left-wing protester, has refused to condemn those who break the law, describing them as brave heroes and likening them to the Suffragettes. The former secondary school teacher, who was a member of the Occupy Movement campaigning against global capitalism in 2011, said some causes were worth risking liberty for. Mr Kelsey-Fry, who lives in Islington, north London, said: "There comes a time when you have to risk your own liberty and your own safety if you are so...
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United Kingdom: Fracking: RSPB objects to Cuadrilla plans for two sites
2013-08-17 03:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The RSPB has lodged objections to proposals to drill for shale gas at sites in Lancashire and West Sussex. It says regulations are inadequate to ensure water, landscapes and wildlife are protected. Prime Minister David Cameron has urged the UK to back fracking, which involves shattering shales to release trapped gas. Cuadrilla, which is exploring the sites, says its activities will not harm birds or other wildlife. These are the first formal objections to fracking from the RSPB, and they...
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United Kingdom: Squeezed households cut energy use by a quarter as prices soar
2013-08-16 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Households in England and Wales cut their energy use by a quarter between 2005 and 2011 as prices soared, government figures show. The sharp fall was probably caused by a mix of efficiency measures and environmental awareness, as well as steep price rises, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Households have faced steep price increases in recent years as wages have remained frozen, squeezing budgets. Average bills have risen by 28% in the last three years, industry regulator Ofgem...
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United Kingdom: Fracking: 'blanket opposition' risks ignoring needs of fuel-poor, says CofE
2013-08-16 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Church of England has entered the fracking debate, arguing that "blanket opposition" to the controversial method of extracting gas risks ignoring the needs of those in fuel poverty and undermining efforts to find less polluting fuels. The church's intervention came as the head of the UK's leading fracking company, Cuadrilla, appealed for calm from protesters as hundreds more activists prepared to descend this weekend on the small village of Balcombe in West Sussex, which has become the centre...
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