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UK failing to protect the Arctic from drilling, warn MPs
2013-07-27 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The coalition government is failing to protect the Arctic from drilling for oil and gas, by allowing new projects to go ahead with too little scrutiny of their potential risks, the UK's parliamentary green watchdog has warned. The MPs urged a moratorium on Arctic drilling, which the coalition has so far rejected, and called on David Cameron to revisit the Arctic, where early in his leadership of the opposition he famously was photographed with huskie dogs. MPs on the influential environmental audit...
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