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United Kingdom: Anti-fracking protesters clash with police at drilling site near Manchester
2013-12-13 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anti-fracking protesters clashed with police on Friday in demonstrations against shale gas drilling in Greater Manchester and against an application made for the first new well site since the South Downs national park was established. There were scuffles between police and protesters at the IGas Barton Moss exploratory drilling site near Manchester. IGas, an independent oil and gas company, insisted the wider public was beginning to understand the benefits of shale. "We support a right to protest...
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United Kingdom: Protesters removed from fracking site
2013-12-05 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: US energy company Chevron has resumed its search for shale gas at a controversial site in north-east Romania after hundreds of riot police forcefully removed protesters from the village of Pungesti. For more than two months, the village, which is believed to be sitting on large reserves of the valuable natural resource, has been the site of largely peaceful protests. Villagers, many of whom are elderly farmers, have set up camp next to the fields targeted for drilling, spending their nights in...
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Fifa asks World Cup protesters for calm
2013-12-05 07:17:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke appeals to dissenting Brazilians to get behind next summer's World Cup.
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Protesters Lock Themselves to Machinery at Enbridge Pipeline Site in Canada
2013-12-04 08:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: Protesters locked themselves to machinery at an Enbridge Inc. construction site in north Toronto Tuesday, forcing the pipeline company to temporarily halt repair work on its aging Line 9B pipeline, which runs under foot. About 20 protesters entered the muddy site on Pineway Blvd., north of Finch Ave., before sunrise and barricaded the entrance with wooden pallets and empty drums of drill antifreeze. Enbridge was forced to send all 31 workers on the site home for the day. For nearly 12 hours,...
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Indigenous Canadian anti-fracking protesters refuse to back down
2013-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Anti-fracking demonstrators set tires ablaze to block a New Brunswick highway Monday in a fiery response to a judges decision to extend an injunction limiting their protests against a Texas-based shale gas exploration company. In a courtroom in Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, Judge Paulette Garnett ruled to continue through Dec. 17 the injunction obtained by SWN Resources Canada against a coalition of protesters led by Mikmaq indigenous people from the Elsipogtog First Nation. The...
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