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Colorado officials order further evacuations as flash floods worsen
Posted by Guardian: Adam Gabbatt on September 13th, 2013
Guardian: Thousands more people were ordered to evacuate their homes in Boulder on Friday as rain continued to cause severe flooding in the city and elsewhere in Colorado.
Several creeks close to Boulder rose to dangerous levels late Thursday, after rain forced many residents from their homes the night before. At least three people have been killed in Colorado, and thousands more have been forced to seek refuge in shelters.
Rescuers are struggling to reach people in the towns of Lyons, Jamestown and...
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Yoko Ono and Susan Sarandon star in new anti-fracking music video
Posted by Guardian: Adam Gabbatt on March 11th, 2013
Guardian: An eclectic group of celebrities including Yoko Ono, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Susan Sarandon have joined forces in a music video calling for New York state to ban hydraulic fracturing.
Titled Don't Frack My Mother, the song was written by Sean Lennon, with about 25 musicians, actors and comedians performing in the video.
It is the latest tool in the Artists Against Fracking campaign to discourage New York governor Andrew Cuomo from allowing fracking in the state. The group, set up by Ono and Lennon...
Fracking debate draws Yoko, Lennon and Sarandon to rural battlegrounds
Posted by Guardian: Adam Gabbatt on January 18th, 2013
Guardian: Yoko Ono might not seem the most likely bus traveller. Northern Pennsylvania, on a cold, snowy January day, might not seem a likely destination.
Yet the threat of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and its impact on the farm she and John Lennon bought in New York spurred Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, into action. On Thursday the pair, a group of activists and the actress Susan Sarandon formed an improbable troupe for a road trip through towns which have been affected by fracking.
The expedition...