The controversial gas extraction technique known as fracking will continue to be allowed in the UK despite confirmation that recent earthquakes resulted from the gas extraction technique.
Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, pumps water and chemicals into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas, has been criticised by environmental groups after two earthquakes in Blackpool were linked to test fracking by energy firm Cuadrilla in 2011. The Department for Energy and Climate Change has published an independent expert report recommending measures to mitigate…
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