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With deforestation rising, Brazil sends more police to the Amazon
2013-08-20 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: With deforestation pacing more than 90 percent ahead of last year's rate according to an estimate released today, Brazil said it has increased the number of environmental inspectors in the Amazon rainforest. Speaking at a seminar last week, Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the federal government has sent a record number of inspectors into the Amazon region as part of an effort to combat surging deforestation. Authorities are working with the national police, intelligence agencies, the...
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British police detain protesters at anti-fracking demo
2013-08-19 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: British police dispersed hundreds of protesters who blocked access to an oil exploration site in rural England on Monday in an intensification of an almost month-long standoff over the nascent shale gas extraction industry in Britain. A total of 36 people were detained, both in the village of Balcome and in London, in the first of two days of "direct action" against the drilling process known as fracking, which protesters fear may trigger small earthquakes and pollute water supplies. Hundreds...
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British anti-fracking protesters scuffle with police at oil well
2013-08-19 08:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Anti-fracking protesters scuffled with police outside an oil exploration site in rural England on Monday and broke into the headquarters of the energy company which is pioneering shale gas exploration in Britain. In what could be the biggest public challenge yet for Britain's shale gas prospectors, opponents of the drilling process known as 'fracking' have already forced privately owned Cuadrilla Resources to suspend oil drilling at the site. After several days of largely peaceful protests...
Coliseum Bid Announced, Police Overtime Questioned
2013-08-18 09:14:44| Real Estate - Topix.net
Editor's Note: This article was written by Joe Dowd. After bringing the Barclays Center to Brooklyn, developer Bruce Ratner will now have a hand in reinventing the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale.
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United Kingdom: Police drafted in to boost security at fracking protest
2013-08-17 15:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Campaigners from the No Dash to Gas environmental group joined anti-fracking activists already there, erecting around 150 tents on a makeshift campsite about a mile from the drilling project. Several activists manned the gate at the West Sussex site to vet people arriving. Officers from Sussex Police, Thames Valley Police and other forces kept watch from outside the gate of the land which is being used without the owner's permission. A 23-year-old man was arrested in connection with threats...
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