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United Kingdom: Michael Fallon defends fracking comments
2013-08-04 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Energy minister Michael Fallon has defended comments about fracking, in which he appeared to suggest the process would affect those living near gas drilling sites. Mr Fallon told a private meeting it would test "how thick their rectory walls are" and "whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive". In the past, he has described shale gas as an "exciting new energy resource". The Tory minister told the BBC his latest comments were "light hearted". His remarks, reported in the Mail...
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United Kingdom: Fracking boss Francis Egan receives bomb threat over shale gas exploration
2013-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Francis Egan, the chief executive of Cuadrilla, has send he was send an email threatening to bomb his company headquarters if he did not cease activities in the UK. Cuadrilla announced that it has started as exploratory drilling began at a site in Balcombe, West Sussex, despite anti-fracking protests by local people and activists from across the UK. Villages across the UK have said that they will block any attempts to drill in the wake of the Balcombe protests. Writing in the Mail on Sunday...
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United Kingdom: Lib Dem president Tim Farron warns fracking could harm countryside 'for decades'
2013-08-03 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: In the first major attack on fracking by a leading member of the Coalition, Tim Farron, the Lib Dems' president, said he was "greatly worried' by the Government's "dash for shale gas' and that he would lobby for measures that would severely limit its potential development. Mr Farron's views clash strongly with those of Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary and a fellow Lib Dem. Mr Davey has said he is "excited' about the secure supply of energy and thousands of jobs that shale-gas extraction could create....
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United Kingdom: Ignore fracking protests, government tells planners
2013-08-03 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Planning authorities have been banned from considering whether renewable energy plants would be a better fit for their communities, if they receive an application for a fracking mine. Documents released by the government stress that local authorities should instead recognise that "mineral extraction is essential to local and national economies". This is despite a Department for Communities and Local Government document highlighting 16 environmental risks linked to the process, including seismic...
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The first rule of fracking is: Dont talk about fracking
2013-08-03 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Hallowich children were just 7 and 10 years old when their family received a $750,000 settlement to relocate away from their home in Mount Pleasant, Penn., which was next door to a shale-gas drilling site. By the time theyre grown up, they may not remember much about what it was like to live there - the burning eyes, sore throats, headaches, and earaches they experienced thanks to contaminated air and water. And maybe its better if they dont remember, since theyre prohibited from talking...
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