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United Kingdom: Fracking protests head north as activists mass on proposed Manchester shale gas exploration sites
2013-12-21 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Gathered under the banner of Frack Free Greater Manchester, militant activists last week pledged to do everything they could to disrupt the search for new sources of energy. Portraying themselves as representing local opinion, they have been involved in a series of demonstrations around Manchester against test drilling by a number of companies which hope to begin commercial exploitation of shale oil and gas. But The Telegraph can reveal that the leading campaigners against "fracking' in the North...
United Kingdom: Wildlife groups criticise green farm subsidy move
2013-12-20 05:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Wildlife groups have accused the government of caving in to big farmers over planned changes to farm subsidies in England. The government proposed increasing the proportion of farm payments transferred to protecting wildlife from 9% to 15%. But it backed it down to 12% after farmers said this was not fair. The government said it would be spending a bigger share on the environment despite a smaller overall budget for subsidies. Farmers get 50bn of taxpayers' money a year based mainly...
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United Kingdom: Nick Clegg may drop party opposition to airport expansion after Davies report
2013-12-19 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nick Clegg has indicated that he may be prepared to drop his party's opposition to the expansion of airport capacity in the south-east of England. In his final appearance of the year on his weekly LBC radio phone-in, the deputy prime minister praised the Airports Commission for making "subtle arguments" which had led it to raise the possibility of building a second runway at Gatwick. The Liberal Democrats gave a clear commitment in their manifesto for the last general election to rule out airport...
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United Kingdom: Manchester fracking protesters park bus across IGas drilling site
2013-12-18 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardiak: Anti-fracking protesters trying to stop an oil drilling operations in Salford have parked a bus across the site. The campaigning group Platform said that there were five people locked to the bus, which is reportedly blocking the entrance at the Barton Moss site run by IGas. The action follows a similar one on Monday, when protesters temporarily blocked the heavily fortified site by dumping a 17-metre wind turbine blade. The blade was subsequently removed. Wednesday's protest comes as a government-commissioned...
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United Kingdom Food and Drink Report Q1 2014
2013-12-18 01:00:00| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com
United Kingdom Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent for
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