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United Kingdom: Fracking firm's drilling plan unnerves West Sussex villagers
2013-05-09 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The only company to have fracked for shale gas in the UK, Cuadrilla, is to drill for oil in a West Sussex village from next month. The energy firm has said the eight-week exploratory drill near Balcombe will not involve fracking, the process of blasting liquid into rock to free natural gas trapped inside, but nonetheless the planned 3,000ft well in the local woodland of Lower Stumble, near Ardingly reservoir, looks set to hit a wall of opposition in this Conservative heartland. "It seems such...
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Kenya: Busia Firm\'s Employees \'Insult\' Villagers
2013-03-26 07:27:00| Sugar Industry News
TANGAKONA villagers residing closer to the West Kenya Sugar company\'s weighbridge at Tangakona in Busia County have expressed concern over misbehavior by the sugar miller\'s employees manning the cane weighing center.
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India's villagers reap visible benefits from solar electricity scheme
2013-03-06 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: India's rush for industrialisation may be stymied by a lack of power for its factories, but, barely noticed, solar electricity is being taken to thousands of villages in one of the most ambitious grassroots projects ever attempted. Five years ago an estimated 400 million people lived with rudimentary, low-quality kerosene lamps, providing poor, polluting and often dangerous light. A further 100m homes were nominally connected to the grid but had intermittent power, often at times when no one wanted...
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VIDEO: Villagers install own fast web cables
2013-02-14 11:59:36| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A rural community in Lancashire has decided to fit their own cables for a better broadband connection.