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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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United Kingdom: Prince Charles hits out at climate change sceptics
2013-05-09 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: World leaders must "act now" to protect the rainforests or risk the Earth becoming a dying patient, the Prince of Wales has warned. In a speech to ministers and tropical forest scientists, he said his work on climate change could be "disheartening" but action was needed because the risk of doing nothing was "too great". "The doctor must act on what evidence is already there," Prince Charles said. But one climate-sceptic think tank has dismissed his comments as "poisoning". 'Act of suicide'...
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United Kingdom: Fracking fears in the Home Counties
2013-05-09 11:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Cuadrilla Resources plans to drill an exploratory well in the village of Balcombe in West Sussex to find out if there is enough oil to drill, or if that fails, gas to extract by fracking. The company is the only one to have fracked for shale gas in the UK, prompting concerns. However Cuadrilla told a meeting of Balcombe Parish Council it expects to find oil at the site, and the possibility of finding gas and therefore fracking was "unlikely" and it had no immediate plans to frack. Rodney Saunders,...
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United Kingdom: Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics
2013-05-09 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Prince of Wales has criticised "corporate lobbyists" and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a "dying patient", in his most outspoken attack yet on the world's failure to tackle global warming. He attacked businesses who failed to care for the environment, and compared the current generation to a doctor taking care of a critically ill patient. "If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem," he told an audience of...
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United Kingdom: Green investment bank's chief plans to borrow and raise debt
2013-05-09 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The chief of the UK's 3bn green investment bank is preparing to move the bank to borrowing and raising debt, in order to vastly expand its scope in bringing forward renewable energy and other environmental projects across the country. The move would be a sharp break with the current set-up of the bank, which on Thursday published data for the first time on its initial investments totalling 635m. It receives money from the Treasury in order to fund green projects, but is not allowed to raise...
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