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UK failing to protect the Arctic from drilling, warn MPs
2013-07-27 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The coalition government is failing to protect the Arctic from drilling for oil and gas, by allowing new projects to go ahead with too little scrutiny of their potential risks, the UK's parliamentary green watchdog has warned. The MPs urged a moratorium on Arctic drilling, which the coalition has so far rejected, and called on David Cameron to revisit the Arctic, where early in his leadership of the opposition he famously was photographed with huskie dogs. MPs on the influential environmental audit...
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UK 'complacent' over Arctic drilling
2013-07-27 04:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UK is "complacently standing by" as firms start drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic, a group of MPs has said. The Environmental Audit Committee said this was despite oil companies being unable to prove "they could clean up an oil spill in such harsh conditions". Members renewed their call for a halt to new drilling, saying it was risky for the climate and the environment. The government said it was not its place to tell Arctic states which resources they could extract. Last month,...
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United Kingdom: Anti-fracking activists arrested at oil drilling site
2013-07-26 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The demonstration, which began on Thursday, is against plans by fracking company Cuadrilla to explore for oil and gas in the area. Local residents, including mothers and children, set up gazebos and bunting by the roadside, while some protesters stopped lorries from entering the area by playing cricket outside the site in Balcombe, Sussex. However, at midday on Friday, 90 police arrived and told around 12 protesters, who had linked arms on a log across the entrance to the site, that they must...
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Test drilling for oil set to start
2013-07-25 03:12:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
An energy company is expected to start exploratory oil drilling near a village in West Sussex at the weekend.
State senator slams California for lack of oil drilling oversight
2013-07-24 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California oil and gas regulators have failed to monitor practices used to access shale oil, including the injection of dangerous chemicals underground, a state senator said Thursday, urging passage of her proposed oversight legislation. Fran Pavley, chair of the Senate committee on Natural Resources and Water, said she was discouraged by the responses she received from the state's oil and gas well regulator to her inquiry about the use of corrosive acid to dissolve rock and unlock oil in California's...
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