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United Kingdom: Drilling pause for Balcombe fracking protests is sensible move, say police
2013-08-16 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Cuadrilla has halted its oil-drilling operations in West Sussex in anticipation of an influx of anti-fracking protesters at the site this weekend. The company, which is pioneering the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing in Britain, said that after discussions with police it had doubled the height of its security fences and installed razor wire at the Balcombe site, and had called a halt to the drilling until further notice. A spokesman said this was owing to concerns "for the health...
Ecuador approves Amazon oil drilling
2013-08-16 09:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. President Rafael Correa said rich nations had failed to back the initiative, leaving Ecuador with no choice but go ahead with drilling. The park is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. Hundreds of people gathered in Quito to protest against Mr Correa's decision. Oil exploitation has been taking place in...
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Anti-fracking protests delay U.K. drilling
2013-08-16 07:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Protesters near the Cuadrilla drilling site have said the company is "running scared" after it announced it would suspend drilling. Plans for massive protests by anti-fracking campaigners have led a U.K.-based oil and gas exploration company to suspend its drilling in southern England. Cuadrilla has vowed to resume drilling once it is safe, as the company searches for ideal sites to conduct hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. "After taking advice from Sussex Police, Cuadrilla is...
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Ecuador to open Amazon's Yasuni basin to oil drilling
2013-08-16 05:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ecuador will open up part of the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling after rich nations failed to back a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to explore in the area, President Rafael Correa said on Thursday. Correa launched the initiative in 2007 to protect the Yasuni area of the Amazon basin, which boasts some of the planet's most diverse wildlife, but said he had now scrapped it after it attracted only a small fraction of the sum it aimed to raise. "I have signed the executive...
Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling
2013-08-16 04:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay his country not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve. Environmentalists had hailed the initiative when Correa first proposed it in 2007, saying he was setting a precedent in the fight against global warming by reducing the high cost to poor countries of preserving the environment. "The world has failed us," Correa said in a nationally televised speech. He blamed...
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