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Greenpeace protesters board Statoil's Arctic drilling rig
2014-05-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Activists from environmental group Greenpeace have climbed aboard an oil drilling rig in the Norwegian Arctic on Tuesday, trying to stop Statoil's exploration plans in one of the world's northernmost prospects, the group said on Tuesday. Greenpeace, which regularly calls Norwegian state-owned Statoil an 'Arctic aggressor', said plans to drill in the Hoop area of the Barents Sea threaten Bear Island, an uninhabited wildlife sanctuary which is home to rare species and occasionally to polar bears....
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Climate summit draws platitudes and protesters
2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Burlington Free Press: The forum on sustainable energy Friday at Middlebury College was advertised as a "summit." With that billing, the audience at Wilson Hall might reasonably have expected high rhetoric, lofty ideals and an unobstructed glimpse or two of the path forward. Were they rewarded? Many (but by no means all) of the several hundred in attendance applauded Vermont's three-man congressional delegation, its governor and special guest U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. Critics aired questions during...
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Protesters in east China clash with police over waste incinerator plan
2014-05-10 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Protesters in eastern China clashed with police at a rally against plans to build a huge waste incinerator that residents fear will be harmful to their health and add to pollution. Choking smog blankets many Chinese cities and the environmental degradation resulting from the country's breakneck economic growth is angering its increasingly well-educated and affluent population. Two of the protesters told Reuters that the demonstrations, which have lasted for more than two weeks, turned violent with...
Australia: Anti-gas protesters brace for massive police dispersal operation
2014-05-07 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A large anti-gas drilling protest camp near the NSW town of Lismore is bracing itself for a major police dispersal operation. The Bentley camp, west of Lismore in north-east NSW, has been the home for around 250 people for the past month, with numbers swelling for protest events each Monday. The camp is on land next to a site where energy exploration company Metgasco plans to begin drilling for tight gas, a type of unconventional gas which is a trapped within layers of sandstone. The local...
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Missoula coal train protesters cited
2014-04-14 20:29:31| Railroads - Topix.net
Seven people who protested the movement of a coal train through Missoula were cited for disorderly conduct after sitting near the railroad tracks, forcing the Montana Rail Link train to slow down.
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