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United Kingdom: Floods: Environment Agency frontline staff hit by cuts, whistleblowers reveal

2014-02-10 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Whistleblowers within the under-fire Environment Agency have told the Guardian that frontline flood staff are being cut, despite pledges by its chairman that reducing the agency's emergency response was a "red line". Weeks of savage weather have battered England and frontline EA staff have been working round the clock to ensure timely warnings, rapid responses and straining defences continue to defend over a million highly vulnerable properties. But deep government cuts to the EA budgets means...

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Scare stories from the cyber frontline

2013-12-04 14:36:45| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com

NIST CS Framework, Industrial Defender, Lockheed Martin, Waterfall, IHS, Honeywell, Tofino.

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New Brunswick fracking protests are the frontline of democratic fight

2013-10-21 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The image of burning police cars played endlessly on the evening news. Television and talk radio blared out reports of "clashes" between police and indigenous protestors. Last Thursday in New Brunswick near the Elsipogtog First Nation, we were told the government had enforced an injunction against a blockade of a US shale gas company. There was nothing about the roots of a conflict years in the making. An appeal to the stereotype of indigenous violence was enough: once again, the natives were breaking...

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