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United Kingdom: Gas flares scare? It was a fracking joke says Tory minster as he tries to laugh off drill gaffe
2013-08-04 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Bungling Michael Fallon yesterday desperately back-pedalled after seeming to admit fracking will blight peaceful communities claiming that his comments were meant as a joke. The Energy Minister, who backs controversial plans to drill for shale gas, had presented a gloomy vision of gas flares and disruption across the South East commuter belt. He suggested even the most vocal supporters would be tested if it came to their own back yards. Telling how a shale bed with potentially massive...
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...
Man crawls off plane: Disabled D. Baraka Kanaan forced to crawl on and off plane
2013-08-03 04:54:12| Airlines - Topix.net
A man crawls off a plane and across the tarmac without any assistance on two flights despite having made arrangements with Delta Airlines for wheelchair accommodations and as compensation for being forced to crawl off the plane, Delta Airlines wanted to compensate 40-year-old paralyzed D. Baraka Kanaan with $100 according to an Aug. 1, 2013, The ... (more)
The academic turned protester behind anti-fracking group Frack Off
2013-08-02 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Dr Edward Lloyd-Davies, 39, worked until last year as a research fellow at the University of Sussexs Astronomy Centre, but now tours the country attending demonstrations and speaking at town hall meetings. The campaign group behind the disruption of an exploratory drilling operation in Balcombe, West Sussex, does not publicise the identities of its leaders, but its website is registered in Dr Lloyd-Daviess name and he helped found Frack Off two years ago. He has convictions for assault and trespass...
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Urban environmental initiatives are paying off
2013-07-26 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: The world is getting to be a more urban place, with all that goes with it. According to data from the United Nations, about half of the planet now lives in an urban environment rather than a rural one, up from 30 per cent in 1960. That's going to increase even more, to about 60 per cent in a couple of decades, if the UN projections are correct. That's a lot of people living close to one another, and it is going to take a lot of resources to keep them satisfied. As we get closer to that urban future,...
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