Sentences with phrase «blocked by campaigners»

Projects like the Severn barrage have been blocked by campaigners keen to preserve the estuary's natural beauty, to Farron's frustration.

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Yesterday's ruling was sparked by a Freedom of Information request by researcher and campaigner Chris Ames, originally blocked by the Foreign Office.

The EU's efforts to decarbonise heavy industry are being undermined by ETS benchmarking rules that systematically block cleaner industrial alternatives from getting a foothold, according to environmental campaigner group Sandbag.

But it took direct action from EU privacy campaigner Max Schrems to force Facebook to put the proposed changes up for a worldwide vote — by mobilizing opinion online and triggering a long standing Facebook policy governance clause (which the company couldn't exactly ignore, even as the structure of the clause essentially made it impossible for a user vote to block the changes).