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National Campaign Supports 100 Grassroots Anti-Fracking Activists
2014-01-11 01:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the national movement to ban fracking picks up steam, MoveOn.org Civic Action is announcing a new #FrackingFighter initiative to support 100 grassroots activists who are working to ban fracking in their local communities. MoveOn is awarding a total of $50,000 to the Fracking Fighters, along with materials, training and strategic support. The initiative seeks to slow down the fracking boom that is anticipated to occur across the U.S. in 2014 and beyond. Natural gas production in the U.S., led...
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Salford anti-fracking camp enjoys local support
2013-12-26 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the wind felled trees, flooded homes and cancelled ferries this week, much of the nation needed little excuse to stay indoors. But for a group of hardy anti-fracking protesters camped by the M62 on Barton Moss in Salford, near Manchester, going inside was not an option, explained Joe Boyd, a 40-year-old builder from Liverpool who was on not just his first demo but also his first real camping trip. Before the storms hit the north, Boyd was already wrapped up warm: a coat, a fleece, two woolly...
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United Kingdom: Anti-fracking protesters clash with police at drilling site near Manchester
2013-12-13 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anti-fracking protesters clashed with police on Friday in demonstrations against shale gas drilling in Greater Manchester and against an application made for the first new well site since the South Downs national park was established. There were scuffles between police and protesters at the IGas Barton Moss exploratory drilling site near Manchester. IGas, an independent oil and gas company, insisted the wider public was beginning to understand the benefits of shale. "We support a right to protest...
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Indigenous Canadian anti-fracking protesters refuse to back down
2013-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Anti-fracking demonstrators set tires ablaze to block a New Brunswick highway Monday in a fiery response to a judges decision to extend an injunction limiting their protests against a Texas-based shale gas exploration company. In a courtroom in Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, Judge Paulette Garnett ruled to continue through Dec. 17 the injunction obtained by SWN Resources Canada against a coalition of protesters led by Mikmaq indigenous people from the Elsipogtog First Nation. The...
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Anti-fracking activists celebrate victory in a fourth Colorado city
2013-11-15 17:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It turns out that it was a clean sweep for opponents of fracking during last week`s elections in Colorado. Voters in the city of Broomfield narrowly approved a five-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. The initial vote tally indicated that the ballot measure had failed by 13 votes, but by the end of an exhaustive recount on Thursday it was revealed it had actually succeeded by 17 votes. The result is expected to be legally certified today, but because the vote was so close there may still...
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