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United Kingdom: Fracking: police reduce operation in Balcombe as protest slackens
2013-08-22 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Police have begun to scale down their operation at an anti-fracking protest site in west Sussex after four weeks of demonstrations. Many of the activists who descended on Balcombe to protest against an exploratory drilling site recently opened by energy company Cuadrilla have now left the area, Sussex Police said. A spokesman said about 120 people are estimated to still be at the roadside camp on London Road at the entrance to the location, while most people had left the Reclaim the Power camp...
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Fracking protest at Balcombe: 'People just seem to be looking for a party'
2013-08-21 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: An unwanted mob had descended on the Balcombe protest camp yesterday, swarming en masse through police lines and fiercely resisting all attempts to squash them. "Bloody wasps,' frowns 40-something protester and mother-of-three Ioonah Woods, watching one of the insects greedily burrowing into a jar of marmalade with all the gusto of a Cuadrilla drill. "They weren't a problem a few days ago but now they have invaded.' Quite who is, and who is not, entitled to be in Balcombe is all the talk in...
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United Kingdom: Fracking: the Battle of Balcombe is far from over
2013-08-20 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: What do bloody clashes on the streets of Cairo have in common with anti-fracking protests against the Cuadrilla exploration rig in rural West Sussex? At a stretch, what links the Battle of Balcombe, which so outrages Tory Fleet Street, with harassment of the Guardian over Edward Snowden's data-mining disclosures? In terms of substance, not a lot connects a constitutional battle for the Egyptian presidency, an environmental tussle in a prosperous corner of Britain and a debate over national security,...
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Green MP Caroline Lucas arrested in Balcombe anti-fracking protest
2013-08-20 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: People are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action Hundreds of activists blockaded the Balcombe oil drilling site in Sussex owned by the fracking company Cuadrilla, as well as its Lichfield headquarters and the offices of its PR firm in London. Demonstrators hung banners at the country home of the Conservative Lord Howells, who stirred controversy by suggesting the "desolate" north should be fracked, and attempted to put up a small wind turbine at the home...
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United Kingdom: A day on the anti-fracking frontline in Balcombe - video
2013-08-19 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scuffles broke out with police as hundreds of protesters blocked access to Cuadrilla's test-drilling site in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex. While many played drums and sang, clashes broke out with police as they tried to move protesters away from the gates. It was the first of two days of 'mass civil disobedience'
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