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Fracking will meet resistance from southern nimbys
2013-08-05 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Michael Fallon's comments in private meeting herald shale gas exploration from Hampshire to Kent that risks putting Tories on collision course with heartland support The energy minister Michael Fallon has warned privately that fracking might soon face fierce resistance from the middle classes in Conservative heartlands as he heralded further exploration across swaths of southern England. Fallon, a strong supporter of shale gas extraction, told a private meeting in Westminster: "We are going to...
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United Kingdom: Fracking row splits apart the Coalition...
2013-08-04 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Fracking has driven a rift through the Coalition as the minister in charge of it described Middle England shaking with the sound of drills. Energy Minister Michael Fallon said at a private meeting that the controversial drive for shale gas could soon extend across a vast swathe of the South. But in the first major attack on fracking by a senior member of the Coalition, Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron predicted opposition would grow stronger than the campaign against wind farms. Local...
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United Kingdom: Gas flares scare? It was a fracking joke says Tory minster as he tries to laugh off drill gaffe
2013-08-04 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: Bungling Michael Fallon yesterday desperately back-pedalled after seeming to admit fracking will blight peaceful communities claiming that his comments were meant as a joke. The Energy Minister, who backs controversial plans to drill for shale gas, had presented a gloomy vision of gas flares and disruption across the South East commuter belt. He suggested even the most vocal supporters would be tested if it came to their own back yards. Telling how a shale bed with potentially massive...
Gas Fracking: No Time for Nuance
2013-08-04 15:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: My friend Andrew Revkin, whom I greatly respect, has lately been pointing out certain problems with critiques of gas fracking, and pointing out how it could be greatly improved. They want more gas until something better can come along. This is the "bridge" argument. Those proponents viewing fracking from the sidelines see that gas is cleaner than coal -- well, what isn't? -- and thus a "bridge" between coal and the next big thing. (The ones in it for the money couldn't care less about "bridges"...
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United Kingdom: Fracking will meet resistance from southern nimbys, minister warns
2013-08-04 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A warning that fracking may soon lead to fierce resistance from middle-class southern nimbys has been given by the energy minister Michael Fallon. Fallon, a strong supporter of shale gas, told a private meeting in Westminster: "We are going to see how thick their rectory walls are, whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive." Fallon, who is MP for Sevenoaks in Kent, said exploratory studies for fracking were already poised to start in the north of England and were set to spread the...
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