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RasGas completes well drilling for Barzan gas project
2013-08-21 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Qatar's RasGas has completed drilling of 30 offshore wells for the $10.3bn Barzan gas project.
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Ecuador Scraps Plan to Block Rain Forest Oil Drilling
2013-08-19 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The decision by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to spare the species-rich Yasun rain forest in eastern Ecuador from oil development has dashed hopes for what environmentalists had hailed as a historic approach to weaning industrial society from its dependence on fossil fuels. "Ecuador and the world have lost an opportunity to shape a revolutionary initiative," said Alberto Acosta, Ecuador's former minister of energy and mines, and one of the chief architects of the so-called...
United Kingdom: Anti-oil drilling and fracking demonstration: Crowds to march through Balcombe
2013-08-18 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro: Campaigners will attempt to get their voices heard today, when a legion of impassioned activists take to the streets in protest against gas and oil exploration in the English countryside. Anti-fracking and oil drilling demonstrators will march at 3pm in Balcombe, West Sussex, the town near to a site on which energy firm, Cuadrilla Resources Ltd, is hoping to stage a test drill. Masses of environmental activists, local Sussex residents and even perhaps a few celebrities Vivienne Westwood was...
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British fracking firm stops drilling amid fierce protests
2013-08-17 17:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press TV: British Energy giant Cuadrilla Resources has stopped its exploration work in the West Sussex countryside in southern England amid growing protests from locals and environmentalists, local media reported. In the face of fierce protests, the fracking firm halted its controversial drilling after it was threatened by activists, who said they will act directly to disrupt the process. Cuadrilla admitted to scale back its drilling activities on the Sussex Polices advice following reports that thousands...
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The world has failed us: Ecuador ditches plan to save Amazon from oil drilling
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A ground-breaking scheme that would have preserved swathes of Ecuadors Amazon Rainforest has been abandoned after raising just $13m (8.3m) of the $3.6bn it needed to operate. In a development that human rights and environmental campaigners described as a huge missed opportunity, President Rafael Correa has lifted a moratorium on drilling for oil in the remote Yasuni national park, which he had imposed in return for $3.6bn of compensation payments from wealthy governments. However, three...
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