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Cuadrilla: Fracking Scaled Back In Balcome As Critics Attack 'Mob Rule' By Protesters
2013-08-17 03:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Fracking firm Cuadrilla has "scaled back" its controversial drilling in the West Sussex countryside in the face of fierce protests. Critics said the company had "caved to mob rule" after activists threatened direct action to disrupt the process. On Friday night, Sussex Police said the operation had cost the cash-strapped force nearly 750,000. And the RSPB joined the debate, lodging a complaint with Cuadrilla about its operation near Blackpool. Up to 1,000 activists are due to join the protest...
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Fracking campaigners like MMR scaremongers, says Church of England
2013-08-16 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It also publicly accused opponents of shale gas exploration of ignoring the interests of the poor, who might benefit from cheaper energy bills and jobs. And while strongly denying seeking to gain financially from fracking by reasserting centuries-old mineral rights, it refused to rule out the possibility of drilling on Church-owned land. In signs of a growing split within the Church over its approach to the controversial technique, senior officials also appeared to criticise one diocese that said...
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United Kingdom: Fracking: 'blanket opposition' risks ignoring needs of fuel-poor, says CofE
2013-08-16 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Church of England has entered the fracking debate, arguing that "blanket opposition" to the controversial method of extracting gas risks ignoring the needs of those in fuel poverty and undermining efforts to find less polluting fuels. The church's intervention came as the head of the UK's leading fracking company, Cuadrilla, appealed for calm from protesters as hundreds more activists prepared to descend this weekend on the small village of Balcombe in West Sussex, which has become the centre...
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Fracking boom could lead to housing bust
2013-08-16 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When it comes to the real estate market in Bradford County, Pa., where 62,600 residents live above the Marcellus Shale, nothing is black and white, says Bob Benjamin, a local broker and certified appraiser. There arent exactly fifty shades of grey, he says, but residential mortgage lending here is an especially murky situation. When Benjamin fills out an appraisal for a lender, he has to note if there is a fracked well or an impoundment lake on or near the property. Im having to explain a...
AUDIO: Fracking protesters 'load of nutters'
2013-08-16 12:33:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The energy firm Cuadrilla is scaling back its work at an exploration site in West Sussex on police advice but protesters said they will not be happy until the firm has gone.
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