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Environmental movement blocks fracking in Algeria’s remote south

An unprecedented environmental protest movement in a remote part of Algeria has disrupted the country’s multibillion-dollar shale programme and is making political waves across the north African nation and the wider region. Since the start of January, thousands of protesters have turned up daily in the rural town of Ain Salah, in the heart of the Sahara, to take part in increasingly raucous rallies against a $70bn hydraulic fracturing project they say will pollute the groundwater and disturb the environment.

Things just got very hot for climate deniers’ favorite scientist

Wei-Hock Soon is always in hot demand. Among climate change skeptics, few commodities are rarer. Soon isn’t just a scientist. He’s a scientist who doubts climate change is man-made. Soon doesn’t work for just any university — he works for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. If you doubt man-made climate change, Soon isn’t just your man. He’s your high priest.

Cheap Oil Can’t Crack European Refiners’ Woes

Europe’s refining sector is getting a break from its misery. But this spell of relief might not be good for its well-being in the long run. Lower crude-oil prices have given a fillip to those companies that process it into products like gasoline. European refining margins more than quadrupled from the first to the last quarter in 2014, according to French oil major Total , hitting their highest levels in two years.

Oil Prices Edge Higher

Oil prices edged up in volatile trade on Monday as investors continued to bet that the seven-month-long rout in prices is bottoming out. Brent, the global benchmark, has registered gains in the last three weeks and is up more than 30% from its mid-January low. But analysts caution that the combination of ample supplies and tepid demand that led to oil’s dramatic slump last year shows little signs of abating.

Algeria Sticks to Shale Gas Development, Unfazed by Protests

Algeria’s state energy company Sonatrach will press ahead with plans to develop shale gas reserves and refuses to yield to protests by local communities and environmental groups, its interim chief executive officer said. Algeria, Africa’s largest natural gas producer, will need 55 billion cubic meters of gas in 2025 compared with 35 billion cubic meters this year, Sonatrach Interim CEO Said Sahnoun said Sunday, according to state-run Algeria Press Service.

France says UN climate talks crucial for world security

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius launched a round of global climate talks in Geneva on Sunday and warned that world security, as well as the environment, depended on their success.The week-long meeting is the first in a series that is meant to culminate in a globally binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Paris in December, with a target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2C above pre-industrial times.