Guardian: In most respects Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya oil platform has little in common with the small drilling rig which stood, for a while, near the English village of Balcombe.
The giant Russian structure, pieced together from parts of a disused North Sea oil operation, stands miles offshore in the ice infested waters of the frozen arctic. Cuadrilla's attempt sat amidst a Christmas tree plantation near a brook and a small country lane. But both were instantly seen as something new.
The past decade has...