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Algeria: fracking and the Ain Salah uprising

2015-03-14 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecologist: Deep in the Algerian Sahara, the oasis town of Ain Salah is a focus of opposition to a new wave of fracking, with violent confrontations between police and up to 40,000 protestors, writes Alexander Reid Ross. They have two main concerns: preventing pollution to the aquifer that sustains them, and keeping out foreign oil giants like Total and Halliburton. The new policy is playing fast and loose with the aquifer that sustains Ain Salah and its precious oasis - and it's the threat of pollution from...

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