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United Kingdom: Protesters removed from fracking site
2013-12-05 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US energy company Chevron has resumed its search for shale gas at a controversial site in north-east Romania after hundreds of riot police forcefully removed protesters from the village of Pungesti. For more than two months, the village, which is believed to be sitting on large reserves of the valuable natural resource, has been the site of largely peaceful protests. Villagers, many of whom are elderly farmers, have set up camp next to the fields targeted for drilling, spending their nights in...
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United Kingdom: Onshore windfarm subsidies to be cut further shakeup green levies
2013-12-04 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Treasury is to cut subsidies for onshore windfarms and solar panels again while increasing support for offshore wind turbines as part of a further shakeup of green levies to make them more cost-effective. Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, will unveil the plans on Wednesday after delivering a speech setting out plans for 375bn of infrastructure spending over the coming decades. He said taxpayer support for solar and onshore wind would be cut as developers were finding ways...
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United Kingdom - ISA Country Report
2013-12-04 01:00:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
This report contains detailed forecasts and analysis for the UK, including trade and investment analysis, economic forecasts, political risk assessments and demographic trend analysis. Each ISA Count
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United Kingdom: Four arrested for blocking lorry on way to Salford methane test-drilling site
2013-11-27 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Four anti-fracking protesters have been arrested as they tried to stop a lorry delivering machinery to a potential methane-gas extraction site in Salford, Greater Manchester. The three men (aged 41, 42 and 47) and one woman were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of obstructing the highway, according to Greater Manchester police. The demonstrators were part of a group of about 30 people who had been attempting to block a lorry delivering a well-setting drill to the site in Barton Moss, right by...
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United Kingdom: Appeal to David Cameron over 'green charges' on energy bills
2013-11-27 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: David Cameron should keep the levy on energy bills that pays for insulation for the poorest and most vulnerable households, a group of more than 140 local authorities, social landlords and academics has told the prime minister in a letter. The government is mulling scrapping the "energy companies obligation" (Eco) the only measure that requires utilities to help households reduce their energy bills, through insulation and new boilers. Cameron was castigated last week by fuel poverty campaigners...
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