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Balcombe oil drilling begins after anti-fracking protests cause delay
2013-08-02 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Drilling for oil close to the West Sussex village of Balcombe has begun following a week of blockades and protests by anti-fracking activists who fear that the possible use of the extraction method could lead to the pollution of water courses. Cuadrilla, the oil and gas exploration company headed by the former BP boss Lord Browne, said work started at around 11.30am on Friday and drills would penetrate more than 900 metres (3,000ft) into the Sussex shale to test for the availability of oil reserves....
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The academic turned protester behind anti-fracking group Frack Off
2013-08-02 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Dr Edward Lloyd-Davies, 39, worked until last year as a research fellow at the University of Sussexs Astronomy Centre, but now tours the country attending demonstrations and speaking at town hall meetings. The campaign group behind the disruption of an exploratory drilling operation in Balcombe, West Sussex, does not publicise the identities of its leaders, but its website is registered in Dr Lloyd-Daviess name and he helped found Frack Off two years ago. He has convictions for assault and trespass...
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Anti-fracking campaigners protest against Cuadrillas shale gas drilling
2013-07-29 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Anti-fracking campaigners staged a protest in the UK last week, successfully blockading a Cuadrilla Resources drill site near the village of Balcombe in Sussex.
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UK Police Charge 12 Anti-Fracking Protesters
2013-07-27 09:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: British police say 12 people have been charged with a variety of offenses in relation to ongoing protests over shale gas extraction in southern England. Surrey Police said Saturday that they have made two further arrests on top of the 16 a day earlier, of whom 12 are facing charges. The charges range from assault on police to preventing drivers and workers from entering a test-drilling site. The protesters are campaigning against the extraction of gas by hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking....
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United Kingdom: Anti-fracking activists arrested at oil drilling site
2013-07-26 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The demonstration, which began on Thursday, is against plans by fracking company Cuadrilla to explore for oil and gas in the area. Local residents, including mothers and children, set up gazebos and bunting by the roadside, while some protesters stopped lorries from entering the area by playing cricket outside the site in Balcombe, Sussex. However, at midday on Friday, 90 police arrived and told around 12 protesters, who had linked arms on a log across the entrance to the site, that they must...
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