Cuadrilla Resources, which is exploring for natural shale gas in north-west England, has admitted its use of the notorious process of 鈥渇racking鈥 was responsible for earthquakes in the region this year, BusinessInsider.com said on November 7.
Fracking is a dangerous process involving fracturing rock with pressurised liquid. Some of the health and environmental dangers of the process were revealed by the film Gasland, about the impact of the practice in the United States.
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"Lou Reed and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello are among the first signatories of Occupy Musicians鈥, a November 22 British Guardian article said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that his government would nationalise the exploration and exploitation of gold and related activities, AVN said on August 17.
Chavez said: "I will soon propose an enabling law so as to begin taking control of the gold area and I expect you to support me, because anarchy rules in this zone, there are mafias, smuggling.
"This is a great wealth, one of the world鈥檚 largest. There is plenty of gold, precious stones, diamonds, bauxite and iron in Guyana.
A Microsoft PR twitter account came under fire for cynically exploiting the death of British soul singer Amy Winehouse, Mashable.com said on July 25.
The small PR account for Xbox tweeted: 鈥淩emember Amy Winehouse by downloading the ground-breaking 鈥楤ack to Back鈥 album over at Zune ...鈥
Zune is Microsoft's entertainment marketplace.
Mashable.com said the tweet sparked a furore, with tweets in response such as 鈥渃lassy", "crass much?" and "Microsoft 鈥 failing at social media".
鈥淯S computer giant Apple has culled a Palestinian application from its iPhone offerings at the request of Israel,鈥 a June 27 IOL.co.za article said.
鈥淭he Arabic-language app ThirdIntifada, released by Apple just days ago, provides users with details of upcoming anti-Israel protests, access to news articles and editorials, and links to Palestinian nationalist material.鈥
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators pointed out the term intifada, which means mass uprising, did not refer to violence.
The Scottish government announced on May 20 that it was aiming to use only聽 renewable energy聽 by 2020, EarthTimes.org said on May 22 鈥 increasing its target from 80%.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, from the Scottish National Party (SNP), said: 鈥淏ecause the pace of development has been so rapid, with our 2011 target already exceeded, we can now commit to generating the equivalent of 100% of Scotland's own electricity demand from renewable resources by 2020.
鈥淥ffshore wind will play a key role in achieving our ambitions.鈥
鈥淚n all of the mainstream media analysis of WikiLeaks' recent release of Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from Guantanamo, relating to almost all of the 779 prisoners who have been held at the prison over the last nine years and four months,鈥 Andy Worthington wrote in a may 11 TruthOut.org article, 鈥渙ne group of prisoners has so far been overlooked: the Yemenis.鈥
The home of Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) was attacked on May 21, CNN.com said that day. It was the second attack on Rajab's house in a month.
The BCHR said the attack occurred in the early hours of the morning while Rajab and his family were sleeping. It said the attackers launched teargas grenades into the house, breaking the window of Rajab's brother, the group said.
鈥淏olivia is set to pass the world鈥檚 first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans,鈥 the Guardian said on April 10.
鈥淭he Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country鈥檚 rich mineral deposits as 鈥榖lessings鈥 and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measures to reduce pollution and control industry鈥, the article said.
BP has asked United States regulators for permission to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the New York Times said on April 3.
The request comes less than a year after the devastating oil spill in the gulf, caused by an explosion in BP鈥檚 Deepwater Horizon rig in which 11 workers died.
The NYT said: 鈥淏P is seeking permission to continue drilling at 10 existing deepwater production and development wells in the region in July in exchange for adhering to stricter safety and supervisory rules, said one of the officials.
US coal giant Drummond paid right-wing paramilitaries accused of murder and human rights abuses for protection of its Colombian operations, Colombiareports.com said on March 16.
The article said the information was revealed in secret diplomatic cables sent between 2006-2010 released by WikiLeaks to the Colombian paper El Espectador,
鈥淐ommanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of 鈥榯rophy鈥 photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed鈥, said the March 21 British Guardian.
The photos, compared by officials in NATO鈥檚 occupying forces to the infamous Abu Ghraib pictures depicting US soldiers torturing Iraqis, were published by German newspaper Der Spiegel.
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