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Rural residents fight traders' plans for masts as high as the Shard
2016-03-01 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When Roman invaders made landfall on the British coast in AD43, it was at the present-day settlement of Richborough where they probably set up camp. Now this sleepy corner of rural Kent has become an unlikely battleground once again as the potential site for telecoms masts as high as Londons Shard skyscraper that will enable high-speed trading firms to make millions. Vigilant Global and New Line Networks (NLN) want to build communications towers to shave milliseconds off the time it takes...
Test finds reported shard found in East Bay Grocery Outlet meat was salt, not glass
2015-05-23 22:28:31| Grocery - Topix.net
Results of a lab test reveal that a recent scare over what was believed to be a shard of glass found in Grocery Outlet meat was all for nothing. The shard was actually salt, not glass, according to a lab team from a third-party organization that studied the particles, which were discovered by a Grocery Outlet customer.
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Greenpeace Save the Arctic activist: 'Shell is in the shadow of the Shard'
2013-07-16 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "I never felt scared, not even once. It wasn't until we were particularly high up it hit me, when we could see how close we were to the planes." Victoria Henry is at Mile End Climbing Wall, three days after she scaled the Shard, Europe's tallest building, for Greenpeace's Save the Arctic campaign. She's waiting to start her first indoor climbing session since scaling the tallest building in London, which seems ridiculously easy in comparison. As we sit in the reception, every person who walks in...
The Shard protest isn't just about the Arctic: it's a victory for women, says Greenpeace
2013-07-11 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It was going to happen eventually. Attempting to climb the tallest building in Britain must be on the to-do lists of all avid climbers in Britain, and the world for that matter. That it is six women who are climbing the Shard in protest at oil and gas drilling in the Arctic today is not insignificant. Why six women? Why not a mixture of men and women, or - as many people might have been forgiven for assuming - six men? "Why not women? These are the people who discussed it and up for doing it,"...
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Greenpeace activists attempt to climb London's Shard
2013-07-11 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of activists from Greenpeace was on Thursday attempting to climb the Shard, the tapered 310m glass tower next to London Bridge station, as a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. In an action that was perhaps inevitable at some point after the completion last year of western Europe's tallest building, visible across much of central London, the six climbers began their ascent in the early hours of the morning. The Twitter feed for Greenpeace UK carried a photograph of the...
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