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Britains Furor Over Fracking
2013-08-27 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The lovely green hills of the High Weald are Tory country, a corner of West Sussex full of affluent residents who commute to London and like their golf and ambles and thatched cottages. So it is a surprise, in this conservative heartland, to stumble on an encampment of hundreds of activists, foraging in the hedgerows for edible greens, sawing wood for fires, playing flutes and generally enacting a kind of mini-Woodstock. But peace and love are not the story. This is the heavily policed front line...
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