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United Kingdom: Fracking will meet resistance from southern nimbys, minister warns
2013-08-04 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A warning that fracking may soon lead to fierce resistance from middle-class southern nimbys has been given by the energy minister Michael Fallon. Fallon, a strong supporter of shale gas, told a private meeting in Westminster: "We are going to see how thick their rectory walls are, whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive." Fallon, who is MP for Sevenoaks in Kent, said exploratory studies for fracking were already poised to start in the north of England and were set to spread the...
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United Kingdom: Balcombe's eco-warriors have the limelight, but a strong local contingent wants to be heard
2013-08-04 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: "I was reading the Telegraph on the train and I noticed a little paragraph saying, 'Cuadrilla to Frack in Sussex'. I knew this was the company that caused the earthquakes in Lancashire, so I thought, 'How interesting'. Then I looked down the story and saw they were coming to my village...' He smiles and steps out of the way as a battalion of police officers comes past. We are on the road just south of Balcombe in West Sussex, where the oil and gas company Cuadrilla is trying to drill a well, and...
United Kingdom: Michael Fallon defends fracking comments
2013-08-04 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Energy minister Michael Fallon has defended comments about fracking, in which he appeared to suggest the process would affect those living near gas drilling sites. Mr Fallon told a private meeting it would test "how thick their rectory walls are" and "whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive". In the past, he has described shale gas as an "exciting new energy resource". The Tory minister told the BBC his latest comments were "light hearted". His remarks, reported in the Mail...
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United Kingdom: Fracking boss Francis Egan receives bomb threat over shale gas exploration
2013-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Francis Egan, the chief executive of Cuadrilla, has send he was send an email threatening to bomb his company headquarters if he did not cease activities in the UK. Cuadrilla announced that it has started as exploratory drilling began at a site in Balcombe, West Sussex, despite anti-fracking protests by local people and activists from across the UK. Villages across the UK have said that they will block any attempts to drill in the wake of the Balcombe protests. Writing in the Mail on Sunday...
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United Kingdom: Why the 'dash for gas' has got off to a false start
2013-08-04 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For all the talk of a dash for gas, the government-backed race for a new generation of power stations has had few willing participants thus far. So the suggestion last week by the chief executive of Drax, the UK's biggest coal-fired power station, that she might invest in new gas plants was a surprise. Nonetheless, her words were hedged with a caution shared by the rest of the energy industry. "We could start to look at it. But it would depend very much on the details of the government's energy market...
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