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New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Oppose Fracking
2013-08-01 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A majority of Californians oppose expanded fracking in the Golden State, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research foundation. As oil companies gear up to frack massive petroleum deposits in the Monterey Shale, the poll also found that 65 percent of Californians say the state should act immediately to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The poll--the second this summer to find strong California opposition to fracking--puts new pressure on state lawmakers...
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United Kingdom: Fracking uproar peer causes further derision with geography revision
2013-08-01 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Tory peer who provoked uproar for saying that fracking should be carried out in the "desolate" north-east of England has prompted further derision after he corrected himself, saying that he meant the north-west. Lord Howell, who advised William Hague on energy policy until April and is the father-in-law of the chancellor, George Osborne, drew gasps of astonishment in the House of Lords on Tuesday for suggesting that the controversial form of gas extraction could take place in the north-east...
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Poll finds Californians back climate change fight, skeptical on fracking
2013-08-01 06:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: An overwhelming majority of Californians believe the state should act to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new poll, while residents narrowly oppose hydraulic fracturing and support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Climate change represents a concrete threat for a majority of Californians, according to the new Public Policy Institute of California poll. More than three-fourths of respondents -- 77 percent -- called climate change a "very serious" or "somewhat serious" threat...
Two more arrests at fracking protest
2013-07-31 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Police at an anti-fracking protest in Balcombe, West Sussex, pushed back demonstrators on Wednesday afternoon to allow the entry of an articulated lorry carrying pipes. It was the first successful delivery of equipment to the site since the protest began last week. Earlier in the day two people were arrested over the ongoing protests against plans to drill for oil at a site a few miles outside the village. The pair a man and a woman had glued themselves together at the gates of the site...
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US fracking industry 'wasting $1bn a year in gas flaring'
2013-07-31 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The full scale of the gas flaring undertaken by the North Dakota fracking industry has been laid bare, after a new report suggested the practice resulted in approximately $1bn of gas being wasted last year. The new study from the Ceres group of sustainable investors draws on official figures from the North Dakota Industrial Commission and reveals that the state's oil and gas developers flared 29 per cent of the natural gas they produced during May 2013. The proportion of gas being flared has actually...
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