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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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Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs
2013-10-21 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Yet another reason to hate fracking: Its connected with an increase in STDs, car crashes, drug-related crimes, and sexual assault in areas where the oil and gas industry sets up shop. Or in Vice-speak, fracking workers have an insatiable appetite for raw sex and hard drugs." Writes Peter Rugh on Vice: Critics of fracking have compared it to raping the Earth, but where drilling has spread, literal rape has followed. Violence against woman in fracking boomtowns in North Dakota and Montana has...
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Canada: New Brunswick fracking protesters seize media equipment
2013-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Tensions at a shale gas protest in Rexton, N.B., remained high on Saturday as a small group of protesters seized vehicles and equipment from two news agencies while others blocked a highway. Jim Haskins, news director for Global News in New Brunswick, said journalist Laura Brown was at the site of an ongoing shale gas protest around noon when about five protesters confronted another media outlet and seized a vehicle on Route 134. Haskins said Brown got into her vehicle and locked the door, but...
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Little oversight for offshore fracking in California
2013-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The oil production technique known as fracking is more widespread and frequently used in the offshore platforms and man-made islands near some of California's most populous and famous coastal communities than state officials believed. In waters off Long Beach, Seal Beach and Huntington Beach - some of the region's most popular surfing strands and tourist attractions - oil companies have used fracking at least 203 times at six sites in the past two decades, according to interviews and drilling...
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Romanians protest against fracking and mining
2013-10-20 11:37:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Thousands of Romanians have protested against plans by US energy group Chevron to explore for shale gas in a poor eastern region and a Canadian company's project to set up Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine.
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