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United Kingdom: Women lead the call to arms as anti-fracking fight intensifies
2016-05-29 07:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are ready for them, said Tina Louise Rothery. It has been a long battle but we have been ready for a confrontation for a long time. Rothery is one of a growing group of women at the forefront of opposition to fracking. Of the 250 anti-fracking community groups that have sprung up in Britain in the past few years, very many are led, or strongly backed, by women, who say they have been outraged at plans to risk peoples health by exploiting the countryside for shale gas. With drilling...
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Fabulous Win for Anti-Fracking Movement as Another Major Pipeline Bites the Dust
2016-04-24 11:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
eNews: For the second time in less than a week, climate activists and fracking opponents in the northeast find themselves celebrating. The latest applause comes after a state regulatory agency on Friday--which happened to be Earth Day--announced it was denying a permit for a major fracked-gas pipeline in the state. Just days earlier, another similar project was halted in New England. Calling it "amazing news" and a "huge victory" for New York residents and the planet as a whole, the decision by the...
Gov. Cuomo Rejects Constitution Pipeline Huge Win Anti-Fracking Movement
2016-04-22 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: In a win for climate activists and the anti-fracking movement, and a blow to fossil fuel polluters and the federal regulatory agencies that enable them, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied a key permit to companies seeking to build a 124-mile fracked gas pipeline. The Constitution Pipeline Project--a joint venture between four oil and gas companies--was proposed to transport fracked natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango,...
Climate Rally for Bernie Sanders Draws 1,000 Anti-Fracking Activists
2016-04-10 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday afternoon, in an old vaudeville music hall in downtown Kingston, New York, Bernie Sanders campaign held a rally for clean energy and safe climate to build support for the presidential candidate and mobilize the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Southern Tier to fight climate change in advance of New Yorks Democratic primary election on April 19. Sanders himself was not on hand--nor was he part of the billing. Nevertheless, more than 1,000 people packed the damp, chilly hall to standing...
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A year after Denton, anti-fracking movement reassesses how to reclaim momentum
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dallas Morning News: The swell in anti-fracking protest in Texas last year caused an international sensation. Residents in the most oil rich of states standing up to an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Media outlets from around the globe poured into Denton last November, to report on a campaign to ban hydraulic fracturing in city limits forcing a referendum in which 59 percent of voters told the oil and gas drillers to get out. But that victory was quickly rendered symbolic once the Texas...
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