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Court rules in favour Cuadrilla in anti-fracking protest dispute
2014-08-29 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Manchester High Court Judge, David Hodge QC has imposed an interim injunction against a group of anti-fracking protestors in Lancashire after a court battle with gas firm Cuadrilla. Cuadrilla took up legal proceedings alongside ten local farmers earlier this week, claiming protestors were trespassing and affecting business for landowners. The anti-fracking campaigners, also known as nanas, camped on farmland at Little Plumpton in Lancashire from August 7 27 to protest against proposed shale...
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What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate Movement
2014-08-24 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: These are my prepared remarks for a speech I gave at the Boston stop of the Peoples Climate March tour, Building a Movement of Movements: Towards the Peoples Climate March in NYC. Hi, everyone. My name is Sandra Steingraber, and I inhabit the anti-fracking wing of the climate movement. Only a few years ago, that sentence would have sounded strange, even to me, because the fight against fracking has its roots in another place. Those who oppose natural gas extraction via fracking first...
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Cuadrilla in legal bid to remove anti-fracking protesters
2014-08-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: An energy firm and 10 farmers have made a legal bid to remove an anti-fracking camp from a Lancashire site. About 20 protesters are believed to be on the Little Plumpton site near Blackpool, with the Reclaim the Power group recently using it as a base. Cuadrilla, which has applied to hydraulically fracture for shale gas at Preston New Road, served a "claim for possession against trespassers". It said the camp has had a "detrimental impact" on the landowner's business. A spokeswoman for the protest...
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Anti-fracking billboards land Ohio man in hot water
2014-08-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: An Ohio man who uses a biblical reference and a statement against "poisoned waters" on billboards opposing wells for disposal of gas-drilling wastewater is fighting a legal threat from the Texas well owner on free-speech grounds. Austin, Texas-based Buckeye Brine alleges in a July lawsuit that the billboards paid for by Michael Boals, of Coshocton in eastern Ohio, contain false and defamatory attacks against its two wells, which dispose of contaminated wastewater from oil and gas drilling. An...
United Kingdom: Anti-fracking group stages day of action
2014-08-18 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anti-fracking protesters caused peaceful disruption at several locations on Monday, gluing themselves to the doors of a government department, occupying a building used by an energy firm and blockading access to a test drilling site. Activists dressed in toxic hazard suits staged a protest outside the London offices of Political Planning Services (PPS), a PR firm that represents the oil and gas exploration company Cuadrilla. The stunts were part of a day of direct action declared by Reclaim...
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