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French Company Found Guilty of Spying on Greenpeace
Posted by New York Times: David Jolly on November 10th, 2011
New York Times: Électricité de France, the giant power utility and the world’s biggest operator of nuclear power plants, was found guilty on Thursday of spying on Greenpeace in a bizarre and convoluted computer hacking case that also ensnared the disgraced American cyclist Floyd Landis.
A court in Nanterre, near Paris, fined E.D.F. 1.5 million euros, or about $2 million, for complicity in concealing stolen documents and complicity to intrude in a computer network. It also sentenced two E.D.F. security officials...
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U.K. Company Suspends Controversial Drilling Procedure
Posted by New York Times: David Jolly on June 2nd, 2011
New York Times: A British company said Wednesday that it would temporarily halt the use of a controversial gas exploration technology after indications that it might have set off two small earthquakes near a test well in Lancashire, England.
The company, Cuadrilla Resources, which is exploring for gas in shale formations deep underground, said it would postpone hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations at the Preese Hall site near Weeton.
"We take our responsibilities very seriously,' Mark Miller, the...