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No shale gas potential in Weald basin, concludes British Geological Survey
2014-05-23 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Government hopes that Britain can emulate the US with a shale gas revolution have been undermined with a long-awaited report unexpectedly concluding there is no potential in the Weald region of southern England. Michael Fallon, the energy minister, insisted he was neither "disappointed nor happy" at the findings from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and denied the government had "hyped" UK potential. He preferred to focus on more positive BGS findings that there could be 4.4bn barrels of...
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BOEM publishes final environmental review for geological and geophysical survey activities off the Atlantic Coast
2014-02-27 20:30:12| Green Car Congress
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New finding shows climate change can happen in a geological instant
2013-10-07 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: "Rapid" and "instantaneous" are words geologists don't use very often. But Rutgers geologists use these exact terms to describe a climate shift that occurred 55 million years ago. In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Morgan Schaller and James Wright contend that following a doubling in carbon dioxide levels, the surface of the ocean turned acidic over a period of weeks or months and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees centigrade - all in the space of about 13...
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Fracking firm Cuadrilla trespassed on private land for geological surveys
2013-08-02 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fracking company Cuadrilla repeatedly trespassed on to private land during geological surveys and in one garden marked a site for the detonation of explosive charges before being chased off, the Guardian can reveal. The company, currently facing serious protests at its drilling site in Balcombe, West Sussex, has paid out to at least one Lancashire homeowner to settle legal action over the trespassing and was warned by ministers that such issues undermined confidence in the company and "only served...
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